Medical professionals
Welcome to the Medical professionals section of the SHM website. This section of the website is geared towards doctors, nurses and other HIV specialist professionals.
Treatment centres
Collecting data is crucial to SHM. Anonymous data are collected in 25 officially acknowledged HIV treatment centres and stored in SHM’s national database to be used for research purposes. SHM maintains a strong collaboration with all HIV treatment centres in the Netherlands.
> HIV Treatment Centres
Data collection
The patient data are collected at HIV treatment centres by data collectors who are partially staff of the treatment centre and partially staff of SHM. Data collectors are members of the AIDS treatment team and thus have the same responsibility for patient confidentiality. Every treatment centre is regularly visited by data monitors, who supervise the quality of the entered data and train the data collectors.
> Data collection
Information for patients
As a treating physician, you ensure that the patients are given oral and written information about SHM and about the procedure for both registration and opting out.
> Information for patients
Treatment guidelines
SHM has assembled an overview of several international treatment guidelines for the treatment of HIV and AIDS.
> Treatment guidelines
Research and statistical analysis of data
You may be interested in HIV research and in specific statistical information about a population in the SHM database. Our website provides publications and a list of research projects in progress in the Research section of the website. For specific questions about data, please ask the data collector or data monitor of your treatment centre. Alternatively, you can contact SHM.