Program to enhance HIV screening boosts testing in urgent care clinics and emergency departments

Program to enhance HIV screening boosts testing in urgent care clinics and emergency departments

A new study from researchers at Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City finds that a comprehensive program with a strong focus on education in the health system's urgent care clinics and emergency departments significantly increased HIV testing for patients being evaluated for other sexually transmitted diseases, helping to increase the number of previously undiagnosed patients who learned they were living with HIV and promptly connected to care.