Patients can accurately perform their own rapid hiv point-of-care test in the emergency department

Point of Care

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 176-179

  Nour, Samah ^a   Hsieh, Yu Hsiang ^a   Rothman, Richard E ^a   Jett Goheen, Mary ^a   Langhorne, Ophelia ^a   Wu, Lan ^a   Peterson, Stephen ^a   Gaydos, Charlotte A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency department; HIV; oral fluid HIV test; point of care test; self testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870410258     PISSN: 1533029X     EISSN: 15330303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/POC.0b013e3182666eb7     Document Type: Article

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