Open AccessEvaluation of an Emergency Department and Hospital-Based Data Exchange to Improve HIV Care Engagement and Viral Suppression
Author(s) -
Tigran Avoundjian,
Matthew R. Golden,
Meena S. Ramchandani,
Brandon L. Guthrie,
James P. Hughes,
Janet Baseman,
Julia C. Dombrowski
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
sexually transmitted diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.507
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1537-4521
pISSN - 0148-5717
DOI - 10.1097/olq.0000000000001195
Subject(s) - medicine , viral load , emergency department , confidence interval , intervention (counseling) , public health , emergency medicine , window of opportunity , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , pediatrics , family medicine , psychiatry , nursing , real time computing , computer science
Emergency department (ED) visits and inpatient (IP) admissions may provide an opportunity to reengage poorly engaged people living with HIV and facilitate viral suppression. In 2015, Public Health Seattle and King County partnered with the University of Washington Medicine to implement a real-time data exchange to identify virally unsuppressed people living with HIV seen at the ED/IP hospital and reengage them in HIV care. We evaluated the impact of the data exchange on care engagement and viral suppression.