Universal HIV screening in the emergency department: an interrupted time series analysis

James S Ford; Samuel G Rouleau; Stephanie Voong; Brittany Morgan; Kavian Toosi; Sarah Waldman; Zichun Meng; Tasleem Chechi; Nam Tran; Larissa May

doi:10.1097/QAD.0000000000003282

Universal HIV screening in the emergency department: an interrupted time series analysis

AIDS. 2022 Sep 1;36(11):1605-1607. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000003282. Epub 2022 Jun 22.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco.
² Department of Emergency Medicine.
³ Department of Public Health Sciences.
⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases.
⁵ Department of Statistics, Graduate Group of Biostatistics.
⁶ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA.

PMID: 35730396
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000003282

Abstract

We performed a calendar-matched, 12-month, before (November 27, 2017 to November 26, 2018) and after (November 27, 2018 to November 26, 2019) study, to assess the utility of an emergency department-based HIV screening program. There were 710 and 14 335 patients screened for HIV during the pre and post-best practice alert (BPA) periods, respectively, representing more than a 20-fold increase in HIV screening following BPA implementation. Total HIV positive tests increased 5-fold following BPA implementation.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

AIDS Serodiagnosis
Emergency Service, Hospital
HIV Infections* / diagnosis
HIV Infections* / prevention & control
Humans
Interrupted Time Series Analysis
Mass Screening*