Prevalence of HIV infection in patients attending an inner city accident and emergency department
| Autor: | J Torkington, John Parry, Robin Touquet, Jonathan Weber, Mark C. Poznansky, J A Connell, M J K Bankes, G Turner |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Letter Urban Population Adolescent Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) HIV Infections HIV Antibodies medicine.disease_cause Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Inner city HIV Seroprevalence London medicine Prevalence Humans In patient General Environmental Science Aged Aged 80 and over Adult patients Traffic accident business.industry Accident and emergency General Engineering General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease University hospital humanities Family medicine HIV-2 HIV-1 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Female business Emergency Service Hospital Research Article |
| Zdroj: | BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 308(6929) |
| ISSN: | 0959-8138 |
| Popis: | The prevalence of HIV-1 infection among patients attending accident and emergency departments in hospitals in the United States is consistently higher than that among other groups of patients served by these hospitals.1 A study at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital showed that 1 in 17 (6%) patients attending its accident and emergency departments were positive for HIV-1 antibodies, compared with 1 in 166 (0.6%) military recruits from the area served by the hospital.2 Until the present study, no such comparison could be made in Britain as few data were available on the prevalence of HIV-1 antibodies in patients attending accident and emergency departments in Britain. This study sought to determine the prevalence of HIV infection in adult patients attending the accident and emergency department of St Mary's Hospital, London, which is in an … |
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