ArticleBMC family practice2016
The need to scale up HIV indicator condition-guided testing for early case-finding: a case-control study in primary care.
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- Missed opportunities for HIV testing among those who accessed sexually transmitted infection (STI) services, tested for STIs and diagnosed with STIs: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2023Pooled it
- HIV testing within general practices in Europe: a mixed-methods systematic review.BMC public health · 2018Pooled it
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- Implementing HIV teams to improve HIV indicator condition-guided testing in general practitioner centers in the Netherlands.BMC primary care · 2024Observational
- Enhancing indicator condition-guided HIV testing in Taiwan: a nationwide case-control study from 2009 to 2015.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The roles of the general practitioner and sexual health centre in HIV testing: comparative insights and impact on HIV incidence rates in the Rotterdam area, the Netherlands - a cross-sectional population-based study.BMC public health · 2023Article
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- Late cART Initiation Consistently Driven by Late HIV Presentation: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study in Taiwan from 2009 to 2019.Infectious diseases and therapy · 2022Article
- Monitoring Recently Acquired HIV Infections in Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The Attribution of Test Locations.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2021Article
- Algorithmic prediction of HIV status using nation-wide electronic registry data.EClinicalMedicine · 2019Article
- Trends in HIV testing in the UK primary care setting: a 15-year retrospective cohort study from 2000 to 2015.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Prescription of antimicrobials in primary health care as a marker to identify people living with undiagnosed HIV infection, Denmark, 1998 to 2016.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2019Article
- Missed opportunities for earlier diagnosis of HIV in British Columbia, Canada: A retrospective cohort study.PloS one · 2019Article
- Identifying missed clinical opportunities for the earlier diagnosis of HIV in Australia, a retrospective cohort data linkage study.PloS one · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundEuropean guidelines recommend offering an HIV test to individuals who display HIV indicator conditions (ICs). We aimed to investigate the incidence of ICs in primary care reported in medical records prior to HIV diagnosis.
methodsWe did a cross-sectional search in an electronic general practice database using a matched case-control design to identify which predefined ICs registered by Dutch GPs were most associated with an HIV-positive status prior to the time of diagnosis.
resultsWe included 224 HIV cases diagnosed from 2009 to 2013, which were matched with 2,193 controls. Almost two thirds (n = 136, 60.7%) of cases were diagnosed with one or more ICs in the period up to five years prior to the index date compared to 18.7% (n = 411) of controls. Cases were more likely to have an IC than controls: in the one year prior to the index date, the odds ratio (OR) for at least one condition was 11.7 (95% CI: 8.3 to 16.4). No significant differences were seen in the strength of the association between HIV diagnosis and ICs when comparing genders, age groups or urbanisation levels. There is no indication that subgroups require a different testing strategy.
conclusionsOur study shows that there are opportunities for IC-guided testing in primary care. We recommend that IC-guided testing be more integrated in GPs' future guidelines and that education strategies be used to facilitate its implementation in daily practice.
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