Patient and doctor perspectives on HIV screening in the emergency department: A prospective cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The emergency department (ED) is mentioned specifically in the Swiss HIV testing recommendations as a site at which patients can benefit from expanded HIV testing to optimise early HIV diagnosis. At our centre, where local HIV seroprevalence is 0.2-0.4%, 1% of all patients presenting to the ED are tested for HIV. Barriers to HIV testing, from the patient and doctor perspective, and patient acceptability of rapid HIV testing were examined in this study.

Methods

Between October 2014 and May 2015, 100 discrete patient-doctor encounter pairs undertook a survey in the ED of Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland. Patients completed a questionnaire on HIV risk factors and were offered free rapid HIV testing (INSTI™). For every patient included, the treating doctor wa

SUBMITTER: De Rossi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5521743 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature