Methods Of Surveillance For HIV Infection In Primary Care Outpatients In The U.S.

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• Alternative Title:
  Public Health Rep
• Personal Author:
  Petersen, L R ; Calonge, N B ; Chamberland, M E ; Engel, R H ; Herring, N C
• Description:
  Primary care outpatients provide a good sentinel population for monitoring levels and trends of HIV infection in the U.S.. Because a broad cross section of the population seeks primary medical care, excess blood from specimens routinely collected for other purposes is available for anonymous, unlinked HIV testing, and all age groups and both sexes can be sampled. The CDC family of surveys includes two surveys of primary care outpatients: (a) a survey of 100,000 blood specimens per year submitted by more than 6,000 primary care physicians to a national diagnostic laboratory for complete blood count or hematocrit and (b) a survey of approximately 10,000 blood specimens per year from a network of 242 primary care physicians. Each survey has different advantages: the laboratory-based survey has a large sample from a large population base, and the physician network survey has a well-defined patient population in which each patient's clinical condition can be determined. In the primary care physician network, a concurrent study of clinical patterns of disease in patients with recognized HIV infection provides additional information on the clinical syndromes associated with HIV infection and estimates of the occurrence of unrecognized HIV infection.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Aged AIDS Serodiagnosis Ambulatory Care Child Child, Preschool Electronic Data Processing Female HIV Seroprevalence Humans Male Middle Aged Population Surveillance Primary Health Care

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• Source:
  Public Health Rep. 105(2):158-162
• Pubmed ID:
  2108462
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMCnull
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  North America
• Volume:
  105
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  Public Health Reports
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  urn:sha256:82b7dc672c5493eb096c7f78c223853c4e7446b5555b8792055cd18b660e9bee
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/63456/cdc_63456_DS1.pdf
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