Emergency department HIV testing and counseling: an ongoing experience in a low-prevalence area

MS Lyons, CJ Lindsell, HK Ledyard, PT Frame… - Annals of emergency …, 2005 - Elsevier
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Despite recommendations, emergency department (ED)-based HIV
screening is not widespread, and feasibility studies are generally limited to settings with high …

Less encouraging lessons from the front lines: barriers to implementation of an emergency department-based HIV screening program

BE Mumma, BP Suffoletto - Annals of emergency medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: We describe barriers to, and discuss recommendations for, implementing a
limited emergency department (ED)-based HIV screening program. METHODS: A pilot …

Counselor-versus provider-based HIV screening in the emergency department: results from the universal screening for HIV infection in the emergency room (USHER) …

RP Walensky, WM Reichmann, C Arbelaez… - Annals of emergency …, 2011 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: We compare rates of rapid HIV testing, test offer, and acceptance in an urban
emergency department (ED) when conducted by dedicated HIV counselors versus current …

Emergency department–based HIV testing: too little, but not too late

GD Kelen, RE Rothman - Annals of emergency medicine, 2009 - annemergmed.com
The HIV epidemic is approaching 25 years. Specific numbers remain sobering, for more
than a million people in the United States alone are living with HIV/AIDS. 1, 2 Of these, an …

[HTML][HTML] Emergency department–based HIV screening and counseling: experience with rapid and standard serologic testing

GD Kelen, JB Shahan, TC Quinn… - Annals of emergency …, 1999 - Elsevier
Study objective: We sought to (1) determine whether some emergency departments could
play an important role in the national strategy of early HIV detection through the …

Acceptance of rapid HIV screening in a southeastern emergency department

AE Freeman, RW Sattin, KM Miller… - Academic …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives: The objective was to assess the acceptance of an emergency department (ED)
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) screening program based on the Centers for Disease …

Public health and clinical impact of increasing emergency department–based HIV testing: perspectives from the 2007 conference of the national emergency …

A Kecojevic, CJ Lindsell, MS Lyons, D Holtgrave… - Annals of emergency …, 2011 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Understanding perceived benefits and disadvantages of HIV testing in
emergency departments (EDs) is imperative to overcoming barriers to implementation. We …

A comparison of routine, opt-out HIV screening with the expected yield from physician-directed HIV testing in the ED

ME Prekker, BM Gary, R Patel, T Olives, B Driver… - The American Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Objectives The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends routine
opt-out HIV screening in health care settings. Our goal was to evaluate the feasibility and …

Establishing an ED HIV screening program: lessons from the front lines

J Brown, R Shesser, G Simon - Academic Emergency Medicine, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
In September 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its revised
recommendations for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing. Prominent among these …

Rapid HIV testing in a southeastern emergency department serving a semiurban-semirural adolescent and adult population

RW Sattin, JA Wilde, AE Freeman, KM Miller… - Annals of emergency …, 2011 - Elsevier
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 …