HIV Seroprevalence Among Long-Stay Patients in a State Psychiatric Hospital
Psychiatric ServicesPublished 1 March 1993Open access
Ilan H. Meyer, Karen McKinnon, Francine Cournos, Maureen Empfield, Sam Bavli, Diane Engel
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It is expected that long-stay patients would have significantly lower rates of HIV infection than new admissions due to greaten disability and fewer opportunities for sexual and drug use risk behaviors in the community.
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We found a seroprevalence of HIV infection of 4% among 199 long-stay psychiatric patients in a state hospital in New York City.
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