Barriers to routine HIV testing among massachusetts community health center personnel

Public Health Reports

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 643-652

  Mimiaga, Matthew J ^a,b,c   Johnson, Carey V ^c   Reisner, Sari L ^b,c   van Derwarker, Rodney ^c   Mayer, Kenneth H ^c,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c FENWAY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FAMILY MEDICINE; FEMALE; FUNDING; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMED CONSENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; UNITED STATES; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SERODIAGNOSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80155153005     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335491112600506     Document Type: Article

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