RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Should we implement ‘opt-out’ HIV testing for patients with lymphoma?
JF Clinical Medicine
JO Clin Med
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 320
OP 322
DO 10.7861/clinmedicine.9-4-320
VO 9
IS 4
A1 J Cave
A1 SG Edwards
A1 RF Miller
A1 KM Ardeshna
A1 SM Lee
YR 2009
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/4/320.abstract
AB Patients with HIV are dying due to late diagnosis and physicians are being encouraged to increase HIV testing. The uptake of opt-in HIV screening for 113 lymphoma patients was audited at University College London Hospital. Of the 113 patients, 46 were not tested (41%). Previous research in the antenatal setting suggests that adopting opt-out screening would increase testing rates.