Confidentiality of sexual health patients' information - what has history taught us and where do we stand?

Sex Transm Infect

School of Health & Life Science, M421, 4th Floor George Moore Building, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow, G4 0BA.

Published: February 2017

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