A comparison of effectiveness between oral rapid testing and routine serum-based testing for HIV in an outpatient dental clinic in Yuxi Prefecture, China: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the outcomes of routine provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling (PITC) and oral rapid HIV testing for dental clinic outpatients in a hospital.

Design

We employed a case-control study design and recruited dental outpatients into routine serum-based and oral rapid testing groups. We compared the acceptance, completion and result notification rate between groups.

Setting

A dental outpatient clinic in the Yuxi People's Hospital, Yunnan.

Participants

A total of 758 and 816 dental outpatients were enrolled for routine and oral rapid testing, respectively.

Results

The percentage of participants willing to receive routine HIV testing was 28.1% (95% CI 24.9% to 31.3%) and 96.1% (95% CI 94.8% to 97.4%, χ2=186.4, p<0.001) for the

SUBMITTER: Li S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5734579 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature