Article ; Online: Initiating pre-exposure prophylaxis in the inpatient setting
BMJ Open Quality, Vol 13, Iss
a quality improvement project
2024 Volume 1
Abstract: Many patients who are at high risk of HIV transmission do not receive pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). HIV risk counselling and PrEP initiation have historically been limited to outpatient settings. Here we describe a novel quality improvement project at ...
| Abstract | Many patients who are at high risk of HIV transmission do not receive pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). HIV risk counselling and PrEP initiation have historically been limited to outpatient settings. Here we describe a novel quality improvement project at San Francisco’s main safety-net hospital designed to incorporate universal screening for active HIV risk factors and PrEP initiation into standard inpatient care. Interventions included education sessions and dissemination of clinical materials to increase providers’ knowledge and comfort with HIV risk screening, prevention counselling and prescribing PrEP. We implemented new workflows on the inpatient medicine service to encourage providers to universally screen all patients at the time of admission and initiate PrEP for appropriate patients during their hospitalisation. Over the first 9 months of the initiative, 14 inpatients were started on PrEP during their admission. As PrEP was initiated in particularly vulnerable patients, using inpatient admissions to engage at-risk patients in HIV prevention may help to reduce disparities in HIV outcomes. |
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| Keywords | Medicine (General) ; R5-920 |
| Subject code | 610 |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z |
| Publisher | BMJ Publishing Group |
| Document type | Article ; Online |
| Database | BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection) |
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