Two Approaches to Routine HIV Testing in a Hospital Emergency Department
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Official title
Optimizing Strategies for Universal HIV Testing (The USHER Trial)
Brief summary
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This study will compare the effectiveness of two different approaches to providing routine HIV counseling, testing, and referral services in an urban hospital emergency department setting.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00502944
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 4,855 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Counselor-based HIV screening Behavioral
- Emergency staff member-based HIV screening Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Feb 2007 (Type not available)
- Primary completion
- Jul 2008 (Actual)
- Completion
- Jul 2008 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Jul 19, 2012
2007 – 2008
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brigham and Women's Hospital | Boston | Massachusetts | 02115 | — |
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- Last update posted Jul 19, 2012 · Synced Oct 22, 2026
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