title: What do HIV-positive patients in Plymouth think about sharing details of their HIV status with other health-care workers?
abstract: We carried out a prospective structured interview with 71% of the HIV cohort in Plymouth to establish patients' views on recording HIV status and details of HIV care in routine hospital and primary care notes. Forty-nine percent of patients did not want their HIV status routinely documented in hospital notes and 57% did not want hospital staff to have access to results of sexual health screens (SHSs). In light of these results, we plan to offer patients the option to opt out of using hospital notes for documentation of their HIV care and will be providing SHSs under a separate genitourinary medicine (GU) patient number.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Plymouth, UK. zoe.warwick@nhs.net
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Warwick
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lillicrap
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information / Q000523:psychology*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000488:Allied Health Personnel; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000523:psychology*; D030881:Disclosure; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008499:Medical Records; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies