Expanded HIV testing in the US Department of Veterans Affairs, 2009-2011

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Czarnogorski, Maggie ^a   Halloran, James ^a   Pedati, Caitlin ^a   Dursa, Erin K ^a   Durfee, Janet ^a   Martinello, Richard ^a   Davey, Victoria ^a   Ross, David ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; ARTICLE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; RACE; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84887283218     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301376     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Cohn HD. AIDS: overview and VA update. Yale J Biol Med. 1987;60(6):515-525.
2. Burke RC, Sepkowitz KA, Bernstein KT, et al. Why don't physicians test for HIV? A review of the US literature. AIDS. 2007;21(12):1617-1624.
3. Kennedy LA, Gordin FM, Kan VL. Assessing targeted screening and low rates of HIV testing. Am J Public Health. 2010;100(9):1765-1768.
4. Backus LI, Boothroyd DB, Phillips BR, et al. National quality forum performance measures for HIV/AIDS care: The Department of Veterans Affairs' experience. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170(14):1239-1246.
5. Gandhi NR, Skanderson M, Gordon KS, Concato J, Justice AC. Delayed presentation for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care among veterans: A problem of access or screening? Med Care. 2007;45(11):1105-1109.
6. Owens DK, Sundaram V, Lazzeroni LC, et al. Prevalence of HIV infection among inpatients and outpatients in Department of Veterans Affairs health care systems: Implications for screening programs for HIV. Am J Public Health. 2007;97(12):2173-2178.
7. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Revised recommendations for HIV testing of adults, adolescents, and pregnant women in health-care settings. MMWR Recomm Rep. 2006;55(RR-14):1-17; quiz CE1-CE 4.
8. Bayer R, Fairchild AL. Changing the paradigm for HIV testing-the end of exceptionalism. N Engl J Med. 2006;355(7):647-649.
9. Bokhour BG, Solomon JL, Knapp H, Asch SM, Gifford AL. Barriers and facilitators to routine HIV testing in VA primary care. J Gen Intern Med. 2009;24 (10):1109-1114.
10. Goetz MB, Rimland D. Effect of expanded HIV testing programs on the status of newly diagnosed HIV-infected patients in two Veterans Health Administration facilities: 1999-2009. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2011;57(2):e23-e25.
11. Zetola NM, Klausner JD, Katz MH. Simplifying consent increases HIV testing and new case detection: The San Francisco experience. Am J Public Health. 2009;99 (11):1924; author reply 1924-1925.
12. Halloran J, Czarnogorski M, Dursa EK, et al. HIV testing in the US Department of Veterans Affairs, 2009- 2010. Arch Intern Med. 2012;172(1):61-62.
13. Federman DG, Kravetz JD, Vasquez LS, Campbell SM. Improving human immunodeficiency virus testing rates with an electronic clinical reminder. Am J Med. 2012;125(3):240-242.
14. Braithwaite RS, Roberts MS, Chang CCH, et al. Influence of alternative thresholds for initiating HIV treatment on quality-adjusted life expectancy: A decision model. Ann Intern Med. 2008;148(3):178-185.
15. Justice AC. HIV and aging: Time for a new paradigm. Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2010;7(2):69-76.
16. Goetz MB, Hoang T, Bowman C, et al. A systemwide intervention to improve HIV testing in the Veterans Health Administration. J Gen Intern Med. 2008;23 (8):1200-1207.
17. Sequist TD, Gandhi TK, Karson AS, et al. A randomized trial of electronic clinical reminders to improve quality of care for diabetes and coronary artery disease. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2005;12(4):431-437.
18. Fung CH, Tsai JS, Lulejian A, et al. An evaluation of the Veterans Health Administration's clinical reminders system: A national survey of generalists. J Gen Intern Med. 2008;23(4):392-398.
19. Kurth AE, Celum C, Baeten JM, Vermund SH, Wasserheit JN. Combination HIV prevention: significance, challenges, and opportunities. Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2011;8(1):62-72.
20. Goetz MB, Bowman C, Hoang T, et al. Implementing and evaluating a regional strategy to improve testing rates in VA patients at risk for HIV, utilizing the QUERI process as a guiding framework: QUERI series. Implement Sci. 2008;3(1):16.
21. Goetz MB, Hoang T, Henry SR, et al. Evaluation of the sustainability of an intervention to increase HIV testing. J Gen Intern Med. 2009;24(12):1275- 1280.
22. Fu J, Gavaghan A, Millett G, Walsh T. Replicating PEPFAR's success: How interventions shown to be effective abroad can be applied to the AIDS epidemic in the US. Health Aff (Millwood). 2012;31(7):1585-1592.
23. Bayer R, Oppenheimer GM. Routine HIV screening- what counts in evidence-based policy? N Engl J Med. 2011;365(14):1265-1268.