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Letters |6 June 2000

Name-Based Surveillance for HIV-Infected Persons

Devon D. Brewer, PhD; John J. Potterat, BA

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  • University of Washington; Seattle, WA 98015 (Brewer)
    El Paso County Department of Health and Environment; Colorado Springs, CO 80910 (Potterat)
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Osmond and colleagues (1) found that HIV-infected persons who tested anonymously reported that they personally notified as many sex and needle-sharing partners (mean, 3.9) as persons who tested confidentially and notified partners with the help of health department workers (mean, 3.8). From these results, Osmond and colleagues argue that patient referral may be as effective as health department–assisted referral for notifying partners. A methodologic flaw in their study precludes this conclusion.
The authors did not validate the retrospective claims of their patients with AIDS about how many partners were notified after HIV diagnosis, an event likely to...
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Brewer DD, Potterat JJ. Name-Based Surveillance for HIV-Infected Persons. Ann Intern Med. 2000;132:922–923. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-132-11-200006060-00018

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2000;132(11):922-923.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-132-11-200006060-00018

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