Undiagnosed HIV Infection in Acute Care Hospitals

Peter Lurie; Robert A. Lowe; Andrew L. Avins; Kathryn A. Phillips; James G. Kahn; Patricia E. Franks; Daniel H. Ciccarone; Robert S. Janssen; Lyle R. Petersen; John W. Ward

doi:10.1056/NEJM199212173272512

Undiagnosed HIV Infection in Acute Care Hospitals

Peter Lurie, Robert A. Lowe, Andrew L. Avins, Kathryn A. Phillips, James G. Kahn, Patricia E. Franks, Daniel H. Ciccarone, Robert S. Janssen, Lyle R. Petersen, John W. Ward

Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology

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To the Editor: The article by Janssen et al. (Aug. 13 issue)¹ is a welcome addition to the growing debate over the counseling and testing of hospitalized patients for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The authors, however, make two assumptions that bias their findings in favor of the testing strategy they outline, and they omit two analyses that are indispensable if the overall effect of this program on public health is to be evaluated. In their calculations of the numbers of detectable HIV infections, the authors acknowledge but do not quantify the possibility that patients may refuse testing. In a…

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1815-1816
Number of pages	2
Journal	New England Journal of Medicine
Volume	327
Issue number	25
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM199212173272512
State	Published - Dec 17 1992

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