Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 43, Issue 3 , Pages 333-338 , March 2004

Emergency department management of sexually transmitted infections in US adolescents: Results from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey

Received 10 January 2003 ,Revised 9 October 2003 ,Accepted 20 October 2003.

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☆ Author contributions: All authors were involved in the conception, design, and data collection. MHG provided statistical advice on study design and analyzed the data. KRB drafted the manuscript, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. KRB takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Presented at the Pediatric Academic Society annual meeting, Baltimore, MD, May 2002.The authors report this study did not receive any outside funding or support.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(03)01111-9

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2003.10.034

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 43, Issue 3 , Pages 333-338 , March 2004

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