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Table 2 Planned study components to promote indicator condition-guided testing for HIV

From: Promoting HIV indicator condition-guided testing in hospital settings (PROTEST 2.0): study protocol for a multicentre interventional study

Pre-intervention

 Assess recommendations for HIV testing in local and national IC specialty guidelines (literature review)

Intervention

 Map barriers and facilitators to IC-guided HIV testing (online questionnaire)

 Assessing specialty specific opportunities to optimise HIV testing practices (semi-structured interviews)

 Educational meeting for medical specialists and residents on IC-guided HIV testing (presentation)

 Interactive discussion on opportunities to optimise HIV testing practices

 Competitive feedback on IC-guided HIV testing performance (graphical audit and feedback)

 Education material (pocket cards and posters)

Post-intervention

 Reporting of post-intervention feedback on IC-guided HIV testing performance to participating specialties (graphical audit and feedback)

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