Òscar Miró, Emília Miró, Juan González Del Castillo, Míriam Carbó, Alexis Rebollo, Rocío de Paz, Josep Maria Guardiola, Alejandro Smithson, Daniel Iturriza, Cristina Ramió Lluch, Connie Leey, José Ignacio Ferro, Mireia Saura, Jordi Llaneras, Núria Ros, Neus Robert, Emma Picart Puertas, Margarita Sotomayor, Ferran Rodríguez Masià, Paul Salazar, David Domínguez-Fandos, Silvia Buxo, Cristina Oliazola, Alberto Villamor, Emili Gené
OBJECTIVE: To describe other reasons for requesting HIV serology in emergency departments (ED) other than the 6 defined in the SEMES-GESIDA consensus document (DC-SEMES-GESIDA) and to analyze whether it would be efficient to include any of them in the future. METHODS: Review of all HIV serologies performed during 2 years in 20 Catalan EDs. Serologies requested for reasons not defined by the DC-SEMES-GESIDA were grouped by common conditions, the prevalence (IC95%) of seropositivity for each condition was calculated, and those whose 95% confidence lower limit was >0...
March 21, 2024: Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica