Late HIV diagnosis: bad medicine and worse public health

PLoS Med. 2007 Jun;4(6):e200. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040200.

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.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • AIDS Serodiagnosis* / economics
  • AIDS Serodiagnosis* / psychology
  • AIDS Serodiagnosis* / statistics & numerical data
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.*
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Counseling*
  • Diagnostic Tests, Routine* / economics
  • Diagnostic Tests, Routine* / psychology
  • Diagnostic Tests, Routine* / statistics & numerical data
  • Disease Transmission, Infectious / prevention & control*
  • Early Diagnosis
  • Female
  • Guideline Adherence
  • HIV Infections / diagnosis
  • HIV Infections / prevention & control*
  • HIV Infections / psychology
  • HIV Infections / transmission
  • HIV Seropositivity / diagnosis
  • HIV Seropositivity / epidemiology
  • Health Care Costs
  • Health Policy* / economics
  • Health Priorities
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic*
  • Public Health* / economics
  • Resource Allocation
  • Risk
  • Risk Assessment* / economics
  • Risk-Taking
  • Treatment Refusal*
  • United States / epidemiology