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A comparison of linkage to HIV care after provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling (PITC) versus voluntary HIV counselling and testing (VCT) for patients with sexually transmitted infections in…

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, August 2014
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Title
A comparison of linkage to HIV care after provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling (PITC) versus voluntary HIV counselling and testing (VCT) for patients with sexually transmitted infections in Cape Town, South Africa
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, August 2014
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-14-350
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Authors

Natalie Leon, Catherine Mathews, Simon Lewin, Meg Osler, Andrew Boulle, Carl Lombard

Abstract

We examined linkage to care for patients with sexually transmitted infection who were diagnosed HIV-positive via the provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling (PITC) approach, as compared to the voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) approach, as little is known about the impact of expanded testing strategies on linkage to care.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 93 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 22 23%
Researcher 15 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 13%
Other 9 9%
Student > Postgraduate 5 5%
Other 15 15%
Unknown 18 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 40 41%
Social Sciences 14 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 3%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 2%
Other 10 10%
Unknown 22 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 September 2014.
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#15,557,505
of 23,881,329 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#5,622
of 7,949 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#132,211
of 237,439 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#102
of 145 outputs
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