Screening for human immunodeficiency virus focused update of a 2005 systematic evidence review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
This report updates an evidence synthesis commissioned by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and completed in March 2005, on screening for unsuspected human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) using HIV antibody (Ab) tests in non-pregnant adolescents (aged 13 to 18 years old) and adults. This...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Rockville (MD)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US)
2007, April 2007
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| Series: | Evidence syntheses
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| Summary: | This report updates an evidence synthesis commissioned by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and completed in March 2005, on screening for unsuspected human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) using HIV antibody (Ab) tests in non-pregnant adolescents (aged 13 to 18 years old) and adults. This brief update was requested by the USPSTF to determine whether there is sufficient new evidence to justify revision of recommendations based on the 2005 evidence synthesis. A key reason for this update is the release in September 2006 of revised Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations advising routine voluntary HIV screening of most U.S. adolescents and adults. The 2005 USPSTF recommendations differ from the revised CDC recommendations in that they do not recommend for or against routine screening non-pregnant adults and adolescents who do not report risk factors and are not in high-prevalence (>1%) or other high-risk settings. Staff at the CDC have indicated that the agency's expanded screening recommendations are based primarily on new evidence as to the effects of HIV screening on transmission risk. This report focuses on new or "breakthrough" evidence that could affect the 2005 USPSTF recommendations regarding routine screening of low- or average-risk adults and adolescents |
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| Item Description: | Title from HTML header. - Update of Screening for human immunodeficiency virus in adolescents and adults / Roger Chou, P Todd Korthuis, Laurie Hoyt Huffman, Ariel K Smits. July 2005. - Updated by Screening for HIV / investigators: Roger Chou, Shelley Selph, Tracy Dana, Christina Bougatsos, Bernadette Zakher, Ian Blazina, P. Todd Korthuis. November 2012 |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |