Low rate of syphilis screening among high-risk emergency department patients tested for gonorrhea and chlamydia infectionsDouglas A E White
Department of Emergency Medicine, Alameda County Medical Center, Highland Hospital, Oakland, CA 94607, USA
Sex Transm Dis 39:286-90. 2012
..The purpose of this study was to determine the syphilis screening rate among ED patients tested for gonorrhea and chlamydia (GC/CT) and the syphilis prevalence among those who were tested...
Understanding patient acceptance and refusal of HIV testing in the emergency departmentKaterina A Christopoulos
San Francisco General Hospital HIV AIDS Division, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
BMC Public Health 12:3. 2012
..It is thought that patients who decline may be at higher risk for HIV infection, thus we sought to better understand patient acceptance and refusal of ED HIV testing...
- Increased acceptance rates of HIV screening using opt-out consent methods in an urban emergency department
Douglas A E White
Department of Emergency Medicine, Alameda County Medical Center Highland Hospital, Oakland, CA 94602, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 58:277-82. 2011
..Optimal methods for implementing HIV screening in health care settings remain unknown...
- HIV screening in an urban emergency department: comparison of screening using an opt-in versus an opt-out approach
Douglas A E White
Department of Emergency Medicine, Alameda County Medical Center, Highland Hospital, Oakland, CA 94602, USA
Ann Emerg Med 58:S89-95. 2011
..We compare outcomes of opt-in and opt-out HIV screening approaches in an urban emergency department...
- Physician-initiated rapid HIV testing in an urban emergency department: comparison of testing using a point-of-care versus a laboratory model
Douglas A E White
Department of Emergency Medicine, Alameda County Medical Center, Highland Hospital, Oakland, CA 94602, USA
Ann Emerg Med 58:S53-9. 2011
..We compare the outcomes of 2 models of physician-initiated rapid HIV testing in an emergency department (ED)...
- A comparison of patient acceptance of fingerstick whole blood and oral fluid rapid HIV screening in an emergency department
Douglas A E White
Department of Emergency Medicine, Highland Hospital, Alameda County Medical Center, Oakland, CA 94602, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 52:75-8. 2009
..Whether patient preference for noninvasive collection methods affects acceptance of HIV screening in clinical practice, however, is unknown...
- Missed opportunities for earlier HIV diagnosis in an emergency department despite an HIV screening program
Douglas A E White
Department of Emergency Medicine, Alameda County Medical Center, Highland Hospital, Oakland, California 94602, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 23:245-50. 2009
..Missed opportunities for earlier diagnosis occurred frequently despite an HIV screening program. Clinician diagnostic testing was an important adjunct to screening...
- Results of a rapid HIV screening and diagnostic testing program in an urban emergency department
Douglas A E White
Department of Emergency Medicine, Alameda County Medical Center, Highland Hospital, Oakland, CA 94602, USA
Ann Emerg Med 54:56-64. 2009
..We describe outcomes of a rapid HIV testing program integrated into emergency department (ED) services, using existing staff...
- Operational methods of HIV testing in emergency departments: a systematic review
Jason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Ann Emerg Med 58:S96-103. 2011
..The objective of this study is to provide a detailed account of the various models and operational constructs that have been described for performing HIV testing in EDs...
- A comparison of HIV testing in the emergency department and urgent care
Douglas A E White
Department of Emergency Medicine, Alameda County Medical Center, Highland Hospital, Oakland, CA 94602, USA
J Emerg Med 39:521-8. 2010
..Although national guidelines recommend universal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing, emergency departments (EDs) may choose to limit testing to certain patients, such as those triaged to urgent care (UC)...
- Emergency department staff satisfaction with rapid human immunodeficiency virus testing
Aparajita Sohoni
Department of Emergency Medicine, Alameda County Medical Center Highland Hospital, Oakland, CA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:561-5. 2010
..Conclusions: Emergency department staff satisfaction and overall attitudes with the HIV testing program is high. ED staff does not appear to be a barrier to program implementation...
- 2009 US emergency department HIV testing practices
Richard E Rothman
Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21209, USA
Ann Emerg Med 58:S3-9.e1-4. 2011
..We characterize HIV testing practices and programs in US emergency departments (EDs) in 2009...
- A Comparison of Patient Satisfaction with Emergency Department Opt-In and Opt-Out Rapid HIV Screening
Douglas A E White
Department of Emergency Medicine, Alameda County Medical Center, Highland Hospital, Oakland, CA 94602, USA
AIDS Res Treat 2012:904916. 2012
..3, 95% CI = 0.5-3.1). Conclusions. Emergency department patient satisfaction with opt-in and opt-out HIV screening is similarly high...
- Nomenclature and definitions for emergency department human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing: report from the 2007 conference of the National Emergency Department HIV Testing Consortium
Michael S Lyons
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Acad Emerg Med 16:168-77. 2009
..These definitions are designed to facilitate discussion, increase comparability of future reports, and potentially accelerate wider implementation of ED HIV testing...
