You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Letter
Audit of HIV testing in a multispecialty acute admissions unit in a London general hospital
  1. N Mody1,
  2. S Ramsay2,
  3. C Ferraro2,
  4. M Hewitt2,
  5. E Gill2,
  6. L Holliday2,
  7. A Ikharia2,
  8. I Reeves2
  1. 1 Caldecot Centre, King's College Hospital, London, UK
  2. 2 Homerton University Hospital, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr N Mody, Caldecot Centre, King's College Hospital, 15-22 Caldecot Road, London SE5 9RS, UK; Nisha.mody{at}nhs.net, nmody{at}doctors.net.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2015-052458

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    We performed an audit to review rates of HIV testing in Homerton University Hospital's acute care unit (ACU), following its participation as one of the HINTS1 study sites and its subsequent introduction of an opt-out HIV testing policy. Local diagnosed HIV prevalence is 8.25/1000.

    Electronic patient records were searched for all ACU admissions, January to April 2014, inclusive. Data collected included demographics, admitting specialty, presenting complaint, HIV tests and results. For …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.