HIV Reporting in Peds

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We are going to start performing POC HIV testing on Pediatric (13-17 years old) patients. There is some concern regarding reporting these preliminary positive results. We have been told that we cannot hold the result until the confirmation test is complete, we have to report immediately. Does anyone currently do this and have advice for what wording is the best for resulting these? I am hoping we can indicate in the result that confirmation is required. I would like to avoid the words "positive" or "reactive" if possible!  

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We will be beginning this process soon.  We will be calling ours "Preliminary reactive with confirmation testing to follow"...  But you could use verbiage that sounds something like:
"Preliminary test results indicate the need for confirmation testing." This is the only intelligible sentence I could come up with that does not use the words "positive" or "reactive"  :-) 

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Savana Christy
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