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Routine prenatal screening for HIV in a low-prevalence settingD M Patrick
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Society, Vancouver
CMAJ 159:942-7. 1998..The objectives of this study were to assess the effect of British Columbia's June 1994 guidelines for prenatal HIV screening on the rate of maternal-fetal HIV transmission and to estimate the cost-effectiveness of such screening...
Non-nominal HIV surveillance: preserving privacy while tracking an epidemicD M Patrick
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Society, Vancouver
Can J Public Health 90:164-7. 1999..To enhance HIV surveillance within a non-nominal provincial testing system...
Public health and hepatitis CD M Patrick
Communicable Disease Epidemiology Services, UBC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver
Can J Public Health 91:S18-21, S19-23. 2000..Public policy alternatives, such as legalization and regulation of injection drugs, are being debated. Improved HCV preventive strategies are urgently required and need careful evaluation...
Antenatal seroprevalence of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) in Canadian women: HSV-2 prevalence increases throughout the reproductive yearsD M Patrick
University of British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sex Transm Dis 28:424-8. 2001..This study sought to provide the first population estimates of herpes simplex type 2 (HSV-2) seroprevalence in Canada...
Incidence of hepatitis C virus infection among injection drug users during an outbreak of HIV infectionD M Patrick
University of British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
CMAJ 165:889-95. 2001..The objectives of this study were to measure the prevalence and incidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in this context and to examine factors associated with HCV seroconversion among IDUs...
Heterosexual outbreak of infectious syphilis: epidemiological and ethnographic analysis and implications for controlD M Patrick
University of British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada
Sex Transm Infect 78:i164-9. 2002..9 per case). The geographical and demographic concentration of this outbreak led to consideration of a programme of focused mass treatment with single dose azithromycin...
The social determinants of emergency department and hospital use by injection drug users in CanadaA Palepu
Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St Paul s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Urban Health 76:409-18. 1999..The aim of this study was to describe the relationship between sociodemographic characteristics and human immunodeficiency (HIV) status of a cohort of injection drug users (IDUs) on their self-reported health service utilization...
Youth's experiences with STI testing in four communities in British Columbia, CanadaJ Shoveller
School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Sex Transm Infect 85:397-401. 2009..To analyse the experiences of youths accessing sexually transmitted infection (STI) services and to examine the perspectives of service providers in four British Columbia communities...
Intention of parents to have male children vaccinated with the human papillomavirus vaccineG S Ogilvie
Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, 655 West 12 Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4R4 Canada
Sex Transm Infect 84:318-23. 2008..The goal of this study was to ascertain parental intentions to vaccinate their sons with an HPV vaccine and to determine factors that predict this intention...
Toll-like receptors 2 and 4 and the cryopyrin inflammasome in normal pregnancy and pre-eclampsiaF Xie
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
BJOG 117:99-108. 2010....
Chlamydia trachomatis in adolescents and adults. Clinical and economic implicationsC A Marra
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Pharmacoeconomics 13:191-222. 1998..Empirical treatment of all patients is also cost effective; however, it may not be feasible for all health systems. A single dose of azithromycin is the most cost-effective antimicrobial agent for treatment of C. trachomatis infection...
Use of incentives to increase compliance for TB screening in a population of intravenous drug users. Vancouver Injection Drug Use Study GroupJ M FitzGerald
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Society, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 3:153-5. 1999..Subjects' compliance for returning to have TB skin test results read is a major problem. In the setting of a needle exchange program we evaluated the role of financial incentives to increase compliance...
HIV vaccine preparedness studies in the organization for economic co-operation and development (OECD) countriesS Dhalla
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
AIDS Care 19:1118-27. 2007..This review provides an in-depth summary of HIV vaccine preparedness studies that were conducted in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries...
Perceptions of sexual partner safetyC L Masaro
Division of Epidemiology Services, University of British Columbia UBC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sex Transm Dis 35:566-71. 2008..The objective of this research was to determine the extent to which partner safety beliefs were used to evaluate partner safety, and whether these beliefs influenced perceptions of personal STI/HIV risk...
Patient satisfaction with care for genital herpes: insights from a global surveyD M Patrick
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Sex Transm Infect 80:192-7. 2004..To describe patient experiences and views regarding genital herpes management...
Tuberculin skin test size and risk of tuberculosis development: a large population-based study in contactsO Morán-Mendoza
Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 11:1014-20. 2007..Contacts of tuberculosis (TB) cases identified from eight Provincial databases in British Columbia, Canada, between 1990 and 2000...
Two outbreaks of botulism associated with fermented salmon roe--British Columbia, August 2001M Dawar
First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, British Columbia-Yukon Region, Health Canada
Can Commun Dis Rep 28:45-9. 2002
