It Is Time to Implement Routine, Not Risk‐Based, HIV Testing

It is time to implement routine, not risk-based, HIV testing.

Approximately one-quarter of a million persons in the United States who are infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) do not know it. To decrease the number of such persons, primary care providers should make HIV testing a routine component of health care. HIV testing should also be offered routinely in other settings, such as emergency departments, jails, and substance abuse treatment c...

Tackling HIV in MENA: Talk Is Not Enough–It Is Time for Bold Actions: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Routine HIV Testing among Hospitalized Patients in Argentina. Is It Time for a Policy Change?

INTRODUCTION The Argentinean AIDS Program estimates that 110,000 persons are living with HIV/AIDS in Argentina. Of those, approximately 40% are unaware of their status, and 30% are diagnosed in advanced stages of immunosuppression. Though studies show that universal HIV screening is cost-effective in settings with HIV prevalence greater than 0.1%, in Argentina, with the exception of antenatal c...

Is it time to implement preoperative platelet function testing before invasive procedures?

Antiplatelet therapy is the current standard for the prevention of cardiovascular ischaemia and stent thromboses. Owing to the widespread use of drug-eluting stents, increasing numbers of patients are maintained on life-long antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and clopidogrel. A clinical dilemma for pain physicians and anaesthetists arises when noninvasive pain treatments fail, and a neuraxial or...

Writing qualitative article: It is time to quality improvement

Précis: This debate article highlights some questions from critics of qualitative research. Planning for proper design, philosophical background, researcher as a research instrument in the study, trustworthiness and application of findings are main debates in this field. One of the issues that have been received little attention is report of qualitative inquiry. A qualified report can an...