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- Published on: 4 December 2020
- Published on: 22 November 2016
- Published on: 21 November 2016
- Published on: 4 December 2020AIDS Research - Missed Opportunity
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I am writing this letter in reference to the article "Missed opportunities for earlier diagnosis of
HIV in patients who presented with advanced HIV disease: a retrospective cohort study". Levy I,
Maor Y, Mahroum N, et al. (2016). The article sufficiently highlights the risk of a patient being
diagnosed with HIV in the advanced or late stages and also emphasizes that the stigma
surrounding the disease proves to be a sizable barrier to early detection and treatment.
The author of this study highlights that a vast majority of patients are diagnosed with HIV at a
late stage. I appreciate that the article used statistical results to support this factor. This late
diagnosis is often due to the misidentification of patients as many of the patients did not present
to their general practitioner with symptoms akin to HIV and are not classified with the common
risk group, thus they were not tested for the disease. These individuals in question repeatably go
through the healthcare system, until they are finally diagnosed with the disease, the author
highlights this in the study as, all patients who had participated within the study frequently
visited the Sheba Medical Centre before their final result. These results from the study
emphasizes the importance of consulting the established risk factors of
What I have found extremely interesting is the stigma around the d...Conflict of Interest:
None declared. - Published on: 22 November 2016Missing opportunities for earlier diagnosis of HIV in patients who presented with advanced HIV disease: a retrospective cohort studyShow More
Dear Editor,
I am writing in reference to Levy I, Maor Y, Mahroum N, et al. (2016). "Missed opportunities for earlier diagnosis of HIV in patients who presented with advanced HIV disease: a retrospective cohort study". The quantitative design provided a clear understanding of the characteristics of of patients diagnosed with advanced or late HIV and the risk factors for being diagnosed at such a late stage....
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None declared. - Published on: 21 November 2016Missed opportunities for earlier diagnosis of HIV in patients who presented with advanced HIV disease: a retrospective cohort studyShow More
The authors aimed to showcase the various missed opportunities for early HIV diagnosis in patients diagnosed with advanced HIV. A retrospective observational cohort study design was used on 356 patients diagnosed of HIV in a tertiary medical centre in Israel and it was found that in a five year range 33.4% were diagnosed late and 16% were diagnosed with advanced HIV disease. The researchers came to the conclusion that l...
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