Is routine testing mandatory or voluntary?

HIV testing policy and serious mental illness.

OBJECTIVES Using opinion data from experts, we examined the context of the argument for mandatory testing of psychiatric patients. METHODS Vignettes were distributed to experts on HIV and mental illness. Respondents were asked to provide appropriateness ratings for different hypothetical clinical decisions regarding HIV management. RESULTS Respondents were reluctant to impose testing withou...

Dealing with a positive result: routine HIV testing of pregnant women in Vietnam.

HIV testing is an essential component of PMTCT. It can be offered to pregnant women through different testing models, ranging from voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) to routine and mandatory testing. This study was conducted in Hanoi, Vietnam, where HIV-prevalence is low among the general population, but high among young, urban, sexually active, male intravenous drug users. Women who want t...

UNIVERSITY OF OSLO HEALTH ECONOMICS RESEARCH PROGRAMME Medical errors : Mandatory reporting , voluntary reporting , or both ?

Characteristics of HIV seroprevalence of visitors to public health centers under the national HIV surveillance system in Korea: cross sectional study

BACKGROUND In Korea, the cumulative number of HIV-infected individuals was smaller than those of other countries. Mandatory HIV tests, dominating method until 1990's, have been gradually changed to voluntary HIV tests. We investigated HIV seroprevalence status and its characteristics of visitors to Public Health Centers (PHCs), which conducted both mandatory test and voluntary test under the na...

Cost-effectiveness of mandatory compared with voluntary screening for human immunodeficiency virus in pregnancy.

OBJECTIVE To determine the cost-effectiveness of mandatory screening for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in pregnancy compared with that of voluntary screening under varying assumptions about patient behavior. METHODS Using a health care system perspective, a decision-analysis model was constructed to estimate the outcomes and costs of the two strategies. Average and incremental cost-effec...