Comparison of patient comprehension of rapid HIV pre-test fundamentals by information delivery format in an emergency department setting

Roland C Merchant¹^,2^,3 , Erin M Gee¹ , Melissa A Clark² , Kenneth H Mayer²^,4 , George R Seage III³ and Victor G DeGruttola⁵

¹Department of Emergency Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

²Department of Community Health, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

³Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

⁴Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

⁵Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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BMC Public Health 2007, 7:238doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-238


Published:	12 September 2007

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Development of the rapid HIV testing video, "Do you know about rapid HIV testing?". This manuscript provides a detailed summary of the development of the rapid HIV testing video, "Do you know about rapid HIV testing?"

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Development of the "HIV pre-test information" questionnaire. This manuscript provides a detailed summary of the development of the "HIV pre-test information" questionnaire used for this trial.

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