HIV malingering in the accident and emergency department.
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HIV malingering in the accident and emergency department.
This paper reports a number of cases of patients attending an accident and emergency (A&E) department claiming to be HIV positive when they have been tested negative and are known to be negative by other departments in the hospital. The reasons for these patients claims are not always apparent. These patients may place an inappropriate workload on an already busy department. We caution doctors ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 1995
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.12.1.59