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. 2014 Apr;58(8):1185-9.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciu044. Epub 2014 Jan 23.

Disparities in the quality of HIV care when using US Department of Health and Human Services indicators

Keri N Althoff  1 , Peter Rebeiro, John T Brooks, Kate Buchacz, Kelly Gebo, Jeffrey Martin, Robert Hogg, Jennifer E Thorne, Marina Klein, M John Gill, Timothy R Sterling, Baligh Yehia, Michael J Silverberg, Heidi Crane, Amy C Justice, Stephen J Gange, Richard Moore, Mari M Kitahata, Michael A Horberg; North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD)
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Disparities in the quality of HIV care when using US Department of Health and Human Services indicators

Keri N Althoff et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2014 Apr.

Abstract

We estimated US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)-approved human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) indicators. Among patients, 71% were retained in care, 82% were prescribed treatment, and 78% had HIV RNA ≤200 copies/mL; younger adults, women, blacks, and injection drug users had poorer outcomes. Interventions are needed to reduce retention- and treatment-related disparities.

Keywords: HIV; HIV RNA suppression; antiretroviral therapy; quality of care; retention in care.

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Geographic distribution of sites within the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD). Cohorts that were noncontributing were either interval cohorts or Canadian cohorts (excluded because the focus of this study was on those in clinical care in the United States) or the cohort does not currently contribute human immunodeficiency virus care visit data to the NA-ACCORD.
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