Racial disparities in testing for sexually transmitted infections in the emergency department

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 604-607

  Goyal, Monika K ^a,b   Hayes, Katie L ^a   Mollen, Cynthia J ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL DISEASE; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYSURIA; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GONORRHEA; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSURANCE; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEGRO; PEDIATRIC WARD; PEDIATRICS; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACISM; RISK; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRICHOMONIASIS; URBAN AREA; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VAGINA BLEEDING; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; PREJUDICE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861321510     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2012.01338.x     Document Type: Article

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