Twenty-two years of HIV-related consultations in Dutch general practice: a dynamic cohort study.

ABSTRACT: To examine the role of general practitioners (GPs) in HIV counselling and testing over a 22-year period. A dynamic cohort study. General practices (N=42) participating in the Dutch Sentinel General Practice Network at Nivel with a nationally representative patient population by age, gender, regional distribution and population density. HIV-related consultations from 1988 to 2009 were recorded using a questionnaire in which patient's characteristics, interventions and test results were recorded. Trends over time and effects of urbanisation (3 categories) were assessed by multilevel analysis to control for clustering of observations within general practices. Time trend analyses show an increasing trend in HIV-related consultations and in the total number of HIV tests per 10 000 registered pa

SUBMITTER: Donker G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3641499 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature