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Enrique Casalino1,2,3,4, Donia Bouzid1,2,3, Stéphanie Antoniol1,2,3
1Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux De Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Bichat, Emergency Department, Paris, France.
Background:
Among the tools for preventing HIV transmission, post-exposureprophylaxis (PEP) is an effective means after potential HIV exposure.
Objectives:
To evaluate aPEP training program and acomputer-baseddecision program (CBDP) using simulated patients in emergency department (ED) on the quality of PEP prescription.
Methods:
This cross-overstudy, carried out from 7January2019 to 28June2019, included 20 ED physicians from 10 tertiary referral hospitals. Intervention consisted of two parts: Period Aassessed physicians' compliance with PEP prescription guidelines before and after atraining program, using 400 post-exposuremedical records (200 occupational and 200 non-occupational). Period Bconsisted of arandomized crossover study involving 40 simulated patients, with physicians using or not using aCBDP. Sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of PEP prescription in accordance with the guidelines were assessed.
Results:
In period A, alpha Cronbach was less than 0.7 whereas it increased after the training to be >0.7. Sensitivity increased, especially for occupational patients ranging from 51.8%-66.6% to 70.4%-90.1%, whereas specificity increased for non-occupationalpatients ranging from 15.5%-51.9% to 52.1%-75.3%. In period B, sensitivity, specificity, and rate of complete assessments significantly increased (p < 0.0001) after the initiation of CBDP. Rate of PEP prescription significantly decreased (p < 0.001) for all subcategories.
Conclusion:
Significant recommendations-discordantprescriptions, mainly overprescription, occurred for patients visiting ED for PEP. Training improved quality of PEP prescription but the reduction was modest. The availability of CBDP improved quality of PEP prescription and allowed for better data collection and reduction of PEP prescription.
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