Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research

Ann K. Avery

Publications

• Research Article
  Decreasing Missed Opportunities for HIV Testing in Primary Care through Enhanced Utilization of the Electronic Medical Record
  Author(s): Ann K. Avery, Michelle Del Toro and Douglaus EinstadterAnn K. Avery, Michelle Del Toro and Douglaus Einstadter
  
  Objectives: We sought to decrease “missed opportunities” for HIV testing by implementing an electronic medical record based intervention designed to increase HIV testing among previously untested men and women ages 18-64 seeking primary medical care in an urban publicly-funded health care system. Methods: In July 2010, we implemented an electronic medical record based reminder to alert providers to the absence of an HIV test among all patients’ ages 13-64 years old. We compared the rate of missed opportunities for HIV testing among primary care patients seen during the two and a half years before the intervention with that of patients seen during the two years after the intervention was begun. A “missed opportunity” was defined as the failure of a previously untested patient to obtain HIV testing despite having made one or more primary care office .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-6113.S4-006

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