The result of an educational intervention for physicians providing HIV-antibody testing and counseling.
Based upon our findings related to physicians' human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody-testing practices in a multispecialty group practice, we randomly selected a group of family practice physicians and over six months provided them with patient education resources and information about HIV-antibody-testing guidelines and their own patient counseling practices. Following this intervention, a chart audit showed that documentation of patient counseling had doubled. We also noted positive, albeit minor, changes in obtaining informed consent. Physicians ordered fewer tests overall; however, we found a slight increase in testing for "inappropriate" reasons.
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D015492:AIDS Serodiagnosis; D003376:Counseling; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D008910:Minnesota; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010819:Physician's Role