Factors associated with patients who prefer HIV self-testing over health professional testing in an emergency department-based rapid HIV screening program.

Kiosk-facilitated HIV self-testing has been shown to be accurate and well accepted by emergency department (ED) patients. We investigated factors associated with patients who preferred self-testing over testing performed by health professionals in an ED-based HIV screening program. This opt-in program evaluation studied 332 patients in an inner-city academic ED from February 2012 to April 2012, when a kiosk-based HIV self-testing program was standard of care.

Public Health Information Delivery in the Emergency Department: Analysis of a Kiosk-Based Program.

Background: Because more than one-third of the U.S. population visits an emergency department (ED) any given year, public health interventions in the ED can have major population-level impacts.

Comparing resident cataract surgery outcomes under novice versus experienced attending supervision.

Purpose: To determine whether supervision by an attending who is new to surgical teaching, or an experienced attending measurably influences intraoperative complications rates or outcomes in phacoemulsification performed by ophthalmology residents.

Setting: Single tertiary hospital.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

An emergency department registration kiosk can increase HIV screening in high risk patients.

We evaluated the feasibility and the patient acceptability of integrating a kiosk into routine emergency department (ED) practice for offering HIV testing. The work was conducted in four phases: phase 1 was a baseline, in which external testing staff offered testing at the bedside; phase 2 was a pilot assessment of a prototype kiosk; phase 3 was a pilot implementation and phase 4 was the full implementation with automated login. Feasibility was assessed by the proportion of offering HIV tests, acceptance, completion and result reporting.

Streamlining HIV testing in the emergency department-leveraging kiosks to provide true universal screening: a usability study.

Background: Emergency department (ED) human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) screening programs are challenged by the unsustainable cost of exogenous staff and the relatively low penetration rates. Kiosk systems have increased registration efficiency in various clinical settings and have shown promising results for advancing various public health initiatives. This study evaluated the usability of kiosks within the existing HIV testing program and assessed patients' perceived acceptability of kiosk-based screening in the ED.

Intraoperative phacoemulsification complication rates of second- and third-year ophthalmology residents a 5-year comparison.

Objective: To determine whether year of residency is associated with intraoperative phacoemulsification complication rates.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Participants: One attending physician supervised 691 resident-performed phacoemulsification procedures on 492 patients.

QuickSNP: an automated web server for selection of tagSNPs.

Although large-scale genetic association studies involving hundreds to thousands of SNPs have become feasible, the associated cost is substantial. Even with the increased efficiency introduced by the use of tagSNPs, researchers are often seeking ways to maximize resource utilization given a set of SNP-based gene-mapping goals. We have developed a web server named QuickSNP in order to provide cost-effective selection of SNPs, and to fill in some of the gaps in existing SNP selection tools.