Juan González Del Castillo, Manuel Enrique Fuentes Ferrer, Cristina Fernández Pérez, Germán Molina Romera, María José Núñez Orantos, Vicente Estrada Pérez
OBJECTIVES: The rates of undiagnosed and late-diagnosed human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection are high. Screening for HIV infection in hospital emergency departments (EDs) could offer a way to increase the number of diagnoses. Our aim was to analyze whether universal hospital ED screening for HIV is efficient. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We followed the guidelines for Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). PubMed, the Cochrane Library, LILACS, Scopus, EMBASE, and the Web of Science were searched using the following terms: "HIV infections/epidemiology," "AIDS serodiagnosis," "emergency service, hospital," "prevalence," and "mass screening/methods...
June 2022: Emergencias: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Medicina de Emergencias