Missed Opportunities: Refusal to Confirm Reactive Rapid HIV Tests in the Emergency Department

Ishani Ganguli; Jamie E. Collins; William M. Reichmann; Elena Losina; Jeffrey N. Katz; Christian Arbelaez; Laurel A. Donnell-Fink; Rochelle P. Walensky

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0053408

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Missed Opportunities: Refusal to Confirm Reactive Rapid HIV Tests in the Emergency Department

Ishani Ganguli,

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Jamie E. Collins,

Affiliations Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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William M. Reichmann,

Affiliations Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Elena Losina,

Affiliations Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard University Center for AIDS Research, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Jeffrey N. Katz,

Affiliations Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Christian Arbelaez,

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Laurel A. Donnell-Fink,

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Rochelle P. Walensky

* E-mail: rwalensky@partners.org

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard University Center for AIDS Research, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Divisions of Infectious Disease and General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Missed Opportunities: Refusal to Confirm Reactive Rapid HIV Tests in the Emergency Department

Ishani Ganguli,
Jamie E. Collins,
William M. Reichmann,
Elena Losina,
Jeffrey N. Katz,
Christian Arbelaez,
Laurel A. Donnell-Fink,
Rochelle P. Walensky

Published: January 8, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0053408

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