{"id":489,"date":"2009-08-20T20:32:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T01:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/?p=489"},"modified":"2009-08-20T20:32:11","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T01:32:11","slug":"the-va-opts-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/the-va-opts-out\/2009\/08\/20\/","title":{"rendered":"The V.A. Opts Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read all about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiv.va.gov\/vahiv?page=pr-home\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As of August 17, 2009, written (signature) consent is no longer required for HIV testing in the VHA. Instead, patients will provide verbal informed consent prior to HIV testing. Furthermore, scripted pre-test and post-test counseling are no longer mandated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since the VA is the largest HIV provider in the nation &#8212; and has an exceptional electronic medical record\/database &#8212; it will be fascinating to see how this policy influences new case detection, linkage to care, and whether there are any negative repurcussions.<\/p>\n<p>Nice page of FAQs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiv.va.gov\/vahiv?page=prtyp-qa-testa\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 And though you&#8217;re sick of hearing from me on this issue, I <em>totally<\/em> agree with this move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read all about it here: As of August 17, 2009, written (signature) consent is no longer required for HIV testing in the VHA. Instead, patients will provide verbal informed consent prior to HIV testing. Furthermore, scripted pre-test and post-test counseling are no longer mandated. Since the VA is the largest HIV provider in the nation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8,9],"tags":[152,237,313,423,447,648,679,741,789,854,962,973],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiv","category-infectious-diseases","category-patient-care","category-policy","tag-case-detection","tag-counseling","tag-electronic-medical-record","tag-hiv","tag-hiv-testing","tag-new-case","tag-opts","tag-post-test","tag-record-database","tag-signature","tag-va","tag-vha"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}