The cost effectiveness of gonorrhea screening in urban emergency departments.

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Published in Sex Transm Dis on July 01, 2005

Authors

Julia E Aledort1, Edward W Hook, Milton C Weinstein, Sue J Goldie

Author Affiliations

1: Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Aledort@rand.org

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