Strategies for partner notification for sexually transmitted infections, including HIV

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Ferreira, Adel ^a   Young, Taryn ^a,b   Mathews, Catherine ^c   Zunza, Moleen ^a   Low, Nicola ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTACT EXAMINATION; GONORRHEA; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RATE; NONSPECIFIC URETHRITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRICHOMONIASIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; MALE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEXUALITY; URETHRITIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; PROCEDURES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TRANSMISSION;

CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CONTACT TRACING; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; URETHRITIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS;

EID: 84886832995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD002843.pub2     Document Type: Review

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