Routine HIV screening - What counts in evidence-based policy?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 365, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1265-1268

  Bayer, Ronald ^a   Oppenheimer, Gerald M ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; MAMMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK REDUCTION; SHORT SURVEY; U S PREVENTIVE SERVICES TASK FORCE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 80053541564     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1108657     Document Type: Short Survey

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