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How can we objectively categorise partnership type? A novel classification of population survey data to inform epidemiological research and clinical practice

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  • C H Mercer Research Department of Infection and Population Health, Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research, University College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • K G Jones Research Department of Infection and Population Health, Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research, University College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • A M Johnson Research Department of Infection and Population Health, Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research, University College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • R Lewis Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK Department of Sociology, University of the Pacific, Stockton, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • K R Mitchell Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Institute of Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • K Gravningen Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • S Clifton Research Department of Infection and Population Health, Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research, University College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • C Tanton Research Department of Infection and Population Health, Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research, University College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • P Sonnenberg Research Department of Infection and Population Health, Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research, University College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • K Wellings Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • J A Cassell Division of Primary Care and Public Health, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • C S Estcourt Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK Barts Sexual Health Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr C H Mercer, Research Department of Infection and Population Health, Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research, University College London, 3rd Floor, Mortimer Market Centre London WC1E 6JB, UK; c.mercer{at}ucl.ac.uk
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Mercer CH, Jones KG, Johnson AM, et al
How can we objectively categorise partnership type? A novel classification of population survey data to inform epidemiological research and clinical practice
Sexually Transmitted Infections 2017;93:129-136.

Publication history

  • Received March 24, 2016
  • Revised June 27, 2016
  • Accepted July 17, 2016
  • First published August 17, 2016.
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February 17, 2017

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