Increasing and sustaining blood-borne virus screening in Spain and Portugal throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-center quality improvement intervention
Inês Vaz-Pinto, Enrique Ortega, Ivan Chivite, María Butí, Juan Turnes-Vázquez, Vítor Magno-Pereira, Miguel Rocha, Jorge Garrido, Catarina Esteves-Santos, Mafalda Guimaraes, Tomás Mourão, María Martínez Roma, Vanessa Guilera, Jordi Llaneras-Artigues, Ana Barreira-Díaz, Santiago Pérez Cachafeiro, Sand · 2024
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Inês Vaz-Pinto and co-authors report a screening project in Spain and Portugal whose text is dated 2023, though the catalog lists 2024. Tens of thousands of people there live with HIV or hepatitis C without knowing it. The COVID-19 lockdowns badly cut routine testing, so the team built testing into normal care flow.
Eight health sites took part, from hospitals to community groups. Two years in, testing volume had more than doubled. Lockdowns cut testing sharply, but sites using automated record prompts held up best and later recovered most of their volume. The project found close to two thousand infections. Readers get a model for keeping vital screening alive in a crisis.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Inês Vaz-Pinto, Enrique Ortega, Ivan Chivite, María Butí, Juan Turnes-Vázquez, Vítor Magno-Pereira, Miguel Rocha, Jorge Garrido, Catarina Esteves-Santos, Mafalda Guimaraes, Tomás Mourão, María Martínez Roma, Vanessa Guilera, Jordi Llaneras-Artigues, Ana Barreira-Díaz, Santiago Pérez Cachafeiro, Sand |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |