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Joan Stephenson, PhD

JAMA. 2003;289:287-288.

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Although guidelines for postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) to prevent HIV infection in health care workers exposed to the virus on the job have been available for several years, clinicians seeking a comprehensive blueprint for treating HIV exposures outside the health care setting have been largely on their own. Recently, Rhode Island has taken a pioneering role in developing perhaps the most comprehensive guidelines issued by a state to help clinicians evaluate and manage patients potentially exposed to HIV as a result of sexual assault or other "nonoccupational" exposures, such as a needlestick from a needle left in a garbage can or a potential exposure during sex caused by condom breakage.

The 30-page document, Nonoccupational Human Immunodeficiency Virus Postexposure Prophylaxis Guidelines for Rhode Island Healthcare Practitioners, is online on the Web sites of the Rhode Island Department of Health (http://www.healthri.org/media/020925a.htm) and the Brown University AIDS Program . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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