Interrelationship of alcohol misuse, HIV sexual risk and HIV screening uptake among emergency department patients

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Trillo, Alexis D ^a   Merchant, Roland C ^b   Baird, Janette R ^b   Ladd, George T ^a   Liu, Tao ^b,c   Nirenberg, Ted D ^b,d  

^a RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency services; Ethanol blood; HIV; Hospital; Intervention; Questionnaires; Sexual behavior risk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BINGE DRINKING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HIV TEST; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL RISK; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; UNITED STATES; UNSAFE SEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BINGE DRINKING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RHODE ISLAND; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNSAFE SEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878241826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-13-9     Document Type: Article

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