Scaling Up HIV Testing in an Academic Emergency Department: An Integrated Testing Model with Rapid Fourth-Generation and Point-of-Care Testing.

CONCLUSION: Integrating HIV screening into the standard triage workflow resulted in a higher proportion of ED patients being tested for HIV as compared with the supplementary staff-only HIV testing model. New rapid fourth-generation testing technology allowed the identification of acute HIV infection and same-visit confirmation of a positive diagnosis. PMID: 26862233 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Public Health Reports - Category: Global & Universal Tags: Public Health Rep Source Type: research