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ED maintains HIV screening by combining it with COVID-19 tests – Healio
The pandemic has disrupted HIV care, including routine testing. By making phlebotomy part of the COVID-19 testing process, an ED at the University of Chicago Medicine…
The pandemic has disrupted HIV care, including routine testing. By making phlebotomy part of the COVID-19 testing process, an ED at the University of Chicago Medicine kept up its HIV screening volumes during the pandemic, data show.
“Patients seen in the ED have a high prevalence of undiagnosed HIV, including patients with acute HIV — priority populations for public health,” David Pitrak, MD, professor of medicine and section chief of infectious diseases at the University of Chicago Medicine (UCM),…
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