Context The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends routine
(nontargeted) opt-out HIV screening in health care settings, including emergency …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: A clinical prediction tool, the Denver HIV Risk Score, was recently
developed to help identify patients with increased probability of undiagnosed HIV infection …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently
released revised recommendations for HIV testing in health care settings, calling for the …

Background To lower the number of undiagnosed infections and to improve early detection,
international health agencies have promoted nontargeted human immunodeficiency virus …

Importance The National HIV Strategic Plan for the US recommends HIV screening in
emergency departments (EDs). The most effective approach to ED-based HIV screening …

OBJECTIVE: We compare outcomes of opt-in and opt-out HIV screening approaches in an
urban emergency department. METHODS: This was a 1-year prospective observational …

Study objective: To assess the feasibility and effectiveness of an emergency department–
based, risk-targeted voluntary HIV screening program. Methods: We prospectively enrolled …

OBJECTIVE: We determine the feasibility and yield of universal opt-out HIV screening
among adolescents and adults in a southeastern emergency department (ED) serving a …

This study was performed to determine the rate of previously undiagnosed HIV infection
among patients presenting to an urban emergency department (ED) and to assess the …

Objectives. We assessed emergency department (ED) patient acceptance of opt-in, rapid
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) screening and identified demographic characteristics …