Late HIV diagnosis: bad medicine and worse public health.
editorial · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 17564489.
- Also identified by PMC identifier 1891319.
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Abstract
The author discusses a new study that models the impact of the CDC's new recommendation of opt-out HIV testing in all health care encounters in the US for persons 13-64 years old.
Medical subject headings
- AIDS Serodiagnosis
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.
- Counseling
- Diagnostic Tests, Routine
- Disease Transmission, Infectious
- HIV Infections
- Health Policy
- Practice Guidelines as Topic
- Public Health
- Risk Assessment
- Treatment Refusal