Comparison of missed opportunities for earlier HIV diagnosis in 3 geographically proximate emergency departments.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Differences in the prevalence of undiagnosed HIV between different types of emergency departments (EDs) are not well understood. We seek to define missed opportunities for HIV diagnosis within 3 geographically proximate EDs serving different patient populations in a single metropolitan area.

Methods

For an urban academic, an urban community, and a suburban community ED located within 10 miles of one another, we reviewed visit records for a cohort of patients who received a new diagnosis of HIV between July 1999 and June 2003. Missed opportunities for earlier HIV diagnosis were defined as ED visits in the year before diagnosis, during which there was no documented ED HIV testing offer or test. Outcomes were the number of missed opportunity visits and the number of p

SUBMITTER: Lyons MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3690121 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature