Sacks M, Dermatis H, Looser-Ott S, Burton W, Perry S
Department of Psychiatry, Payne Whitney Clinic, New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical College, NY.
Am J Psychiatry. 1992 Apr;149(4):544-5. doi: 10.1176/ajp.149.4.544.
Serological testing of waste bloods revealed that 25 (7%) of 350 acutely ill psychiatric inpatients had HIV infection. Eight of the 10 HIV-positive patients whose serological status was not recorded on admission were discharged with their status still unrecorded and presumably undetected. Thirty-nine (51%) of the 77 inpatients with HIV-related risk behaviors identified on admission were discharged with no record of their having been serologically tested before or during hospitalization.