Relative or absolute? A significant intervention for chlamydia screening with small absolute benefit

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 172-173

  Miller, William C ^a,b   Nguyen, Nadia L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR;

CHLAMYDIA INFECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY (CLINICAL); SCREENING;

CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 84899556154     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2013-051426     Document Type: Editorial

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