Disparities in HIV knowledge and attitudes toward biomedical interventions among the non-medical HIV workforce in the United States.

Non-medical, community-based workers play a critical role in supporting people living with (or at risk of acquiring) HIV along the care continuum. The biomedical nature of promising advances in HIV prevention, such as pre-exposure prophylaxis and treatment-as-prevention, requires frontline workers to be knowledgeable about HIV science and treatment. This study was developed to: measure knowledge of HIV science and treatment within the HIV non-medical workforce, evaluate workers' familiarity with and attitudes toward recent biomedical interventions, and identify factors that may affect HIV knowledge and attitudes.

The relationship between hospital systems load and patient harm.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to describe the relationship between patient harm due to health-care errors and the stresses on the hospital systems that occur because of the patients in need of care.

Methods: Two California hospitals each provided 1 year of data to study the relationship between patient harm and Hospital Systems Load. This observational study used 2 metrics, Hospital Systems Load and patient harm.

HIV testing practices among black primary care physicians in the United States.

Background: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends routine HIV testing in all healthcare settings, but it is unclear how consistently physicians adopt the recommendation. Making the most of each interaction between black physicians and their patients is extremely important to address the HIV health disparities that disproportionately afflict the black community. The goal of this survey-based study was to evaluate the perceptions and practices of black, primary care physicians regarding HIV testing.