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Feasibility and Success of Hiv Point‐of‐Care Testing in an Emergency Department in an Urban Canadian Setting
Author(s) -
Marissa Becker,
Laura H. Thompson,
Carla Pindera,
Natalie Bridger,
Carmen Lopez,
Yoav Keynan,
Jared Bullard,
Paul Van Caseele,
Ken Kasper
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
canadian journal of infectious diseases and medical microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.634
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1918-1493
pISSN - 1712-9532
DOI - 10.1155/2013/164797
Subject(s) - medicine , emergency department , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , hiv test , test (biology) , family medicine , point of care testing , hiv screening , cross sectional study , gerontology , emergency medicine , demography , men who have sex with men , environmental health , population , immunology , nursing , pathology , syphilis , health services , paleontology , health facility , sociology , biology
Approximately 26% of Canadians living with HIV are unaware of their status. Point-of-care (POC) HIV tests have been introduced to simplify and expand HIV testing.

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