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Occupational Exposure and Voluntary Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing: A Survey of Maryland Hospitals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Liza Solomon ,
Charlotte Thompson ,
Linda Squiers ,
Karen Wulff  and
Georges Benjamin
Liza Solomon*
Affiliation:
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, AIDS Administrations, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, Maryland
Charlotte Thompson
Affiliation:
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, AIDS Administrations, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, Maryland
Linda Squiers
Affiliation:
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, AIDS Administrations, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, Maryland
Karen Wulff
Affiliation:
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, AIDS Administrations, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, Maryland
Georges Benjamin
Affiliation:
Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, Maryland
*
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, AIDS Administration, 500 North Calvert St, Baltimore, MD 21202
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Abstract

A survey was conducted to estimate how often healthcare providers were exposed to patients' blood and the percentage of incidents in which patients agreed to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing. Data from 38 hospitals with 53,508 employees revealed 2,244 exposures. Of 1,732 requests for information regarding the HIV status of the source patient, only 77 (6%) resulted in the patient's refusal to consent to an HIV test.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 20 , Issue 6 , June 1999 , pp. 430 - 432
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1999

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