TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing HIV care and unmet need
T2 - Eight data bases and a bit of perseverance
AU - Perkins, D.
AU - Meyerson, B. E.
AU - Klinkenberg, D.
AU - Laffoon, B. T.
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was made possible in part through a grant from the Missouri Foundation for Health in collaboration with the AIDS Foundation of St. Louis and the Policy Resource Group, LLC.
PY - 2008/3
Y1 - 2008/3
N2 - This study integrated healthcare information from multiple data sources to measure access to HIV primary care in the St. Louis, Missouri area between 1998-2002. We describe the process of creating the collective database and the degree to which each dataset contributed to the calculation of global variables such as evidence of HIV primary care. Descriptive analyses were used to measure evidence of HIV primary among the included data sources. This study was the first of its kind to study HIV primary healthcare access over a period of five years with integrated databases. Findings reinforce the importance of HIV laboratory values as indicators of access to HIV primary healthcare, particularly in the absence of other health data sets. Limitations to the study were posed by data availability and integration of data sources with varying purposes and sophistication.
AB - This study integrated healthcare information from multiple data sources to measure access to HIV primary care in the St. Louis, Missouri area between 1998-2002. We describe the process of creating the collective database and the degree to which each dataset contributed to the calculation of global variables such as evidence of HIV primary care. Descriptive analyses were used to measure evidence of HIV primary among the included data sources. This study was the first of its kind to study HIV primary healthcare access over a period of five years with integrated databases. Findings reinforce the importance of HIV laboratory values as indicators of access to HIV primary healthcare, particularly in the absence of other health data sets. Limitations to the study were posed by data availability and integration of data sources with varying purposes and sophistication.
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U2 - 10.1080/09540120701594784
DO - 10.1080/09540120701594784
M3 - Article
C2 - 18351479
AN - SCOPUS:41349122031
SN - 0954-0121
VL - 20
SP - 318
EP - 326
JO - AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
JF - AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
IS - 3
ER -