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- Title
Understanding HIV Screening in the Emergency Department: Is Perception Reality?
- Authors
Haukoos, Jason S.; Hopkins, Emily; Cone, David C.
- Abstract
The article reports that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the U.S. has released a unified and aggressive HIV prevention strategy according to which it is mandatory to offer a HIV screening to every patient who seek medical care. It also mentions that HIV screening helps in detecting HIV at an early stage which is a benefit in reducing the infectivity and other ill effects.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HIV prevention; CENTERS for Disease Control &; Prevention (U.S.); EMERGENCY medicine; HOSPITAL emergency services; MEDICAL care; MEDICAL protocols; MEDICAL screening; PATIENTS; PUBLIC health; MANDATORY medical testing
- Publication
Academic Emergency Medicine, 2013, Vol 20, Issue 3, p309
- ISSN
1069-6563
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/acem.12082