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Comments on the Recent Clinical Guidance Statement on HIV Screening
- David R. Holtgrave, PhD
- From Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205.
TO THE EDITOR:
Qaseem and colleagues (1) recently presented clinical practice guidelines on HIV screening in health care settings. One of the authors (Dr. Owens) and 2 of the acknowledged commentators (Drs. Walensky and Paltiel) have had cost-effectiveness analyses of routine HIV testing published, but this is not the entirety of all researchers (myself included) who have written about this topic. Qaseem and colleagues classify only the economic evaluation work of the authors and commentators as good quality and inaccurately characterize the literature they …
