HIV/AIDS Screening
Studies conducted at University of Pennsylvania on HIV/AIDS screening recently published
Published in AIDS Weekly, December 31st, 2007
Current study results from the report, 'Nonconsented human immunodeficiency virus testing among critically ill patients: intensivists' practices and the influence of state laws,' have been published. "Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing can improve care for many critically ill patients, but state laws and institutional policies may impede such testing when patients cannot provide consent. We electronically surveyed all US academic intensivists in 2006 to determine how state laws influence intensivists' decisions to perform nonconsented HIV testing and to assess intensivists' reliance on surrogate markers of HIV infection when unable to obtain HIV tests," scientists in the United...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2007-12-31)
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