Timely HIV diagnosis and HIV/TB comanagement among California patients in 2008.

CONCLUSIONS: Although most HIV/TB patients received the recommended treatment, half had new HIV diagnoses. Compared with patients who had previous HIV diagnoses, patients with new HIV diagnoses had greater immunosuppression at TB diagnosis. A new diagnosis indicates that HIV could have been diagnosed earlier and ART or treatment for latent TB infection could have been initiated to prevent TB development. PMID: 24587552 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Source: Public Health Reports - Category: Global & Universal Tags: Public Health Rep Source Type: research