Geographic Information System-based Screening for TB, HIV, and Syphilis (GIS-THIS): A Cross-Sectional Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Goswami, Neela D ^a   Hecker, Emily J ^a   Vickery, Carter ^c   Ahearn, Marshall A ^a   Cox, Gary M ^a   Holland, David P ^a   Naggie, Susanna ^a   Piedrahita, Carla ^b   Mosher, Ann ^a   Torres, Yvonne ^b   Norton, Brianna L ^a   Suchindran, Sujit ^a   Park, Paul H ^a   Turner, Debbie ^b   Stout, Jason E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Wake County Human Services   (United States)

^c Wake County Community Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; COCAINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG ABUSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIXED INFECTION; MORBIDITY; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; REAGIN TEST; RELIABILITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SYPHILIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYPHILIS; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 84866974648     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046029     Document Type: Article

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