HIV diagnoses and missed opportunities. Results of the British HIV Association (BHIVA) national audit 2010

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 430-434

  Ellis, Simon ^a   Curtis, Hilary ^b   Ong, Edmund L C ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b British HIV Association   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit; HIV; Missed opportunity; Testing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DYSCRASIA; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84867912897     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: 14734893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.12-5-430     Document Type: Article

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