Evaluating HIV Surveillance Completeness Along the Continuum of Care: Supplementing Surveillance With Health Center Data to Increase HIV Data to Care Efficiency
| Autor: | Hope Cassidy-Stewart, Jeffrey C Hitt, Alyssa L Arey, Colin Flynn, Pamela L Kurowski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) MEDLINE HIV Infections 030312 virology medicine.disease_cause Cohort Studies 03 medical and health sciences medicine Humans Public Health Surveillance Pharmacology (medical) Viral suppression Continuum of care Hiv surveillance Data source 0303 health sciences Maryland business.industry virus diseases Continuity of Patient Care United States Infectious Diseases Family medicine Cohort business Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 82:S26-S32 |
| ISSN: | 1525-4135 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/qai.0000000000001970 |
| Popis: | Background HIV surveillance is essential to quantifying the impact of the epidemic and shaping HIV programs. The Maryland Department of Health (MDH) historically conducted HIV Data to Care (D2C) activities using surveillance data to identify individuals who were not in HIV care; however, most case investigations concluded that the individuals in question were currently engaged in care. This suggests that delays and gaps in laboratory reporting to HIV surveillance exist and the proportion of HIV-positive Marylanders who are truly in care is underestimated. Therefore, solely relying on surveillance data might not be an efficient method for identifying not in care HIV cases. Setting Through the Partnerships for Care (P4C) project, MDH conducted targeted D2C efforts on HIV patients from 4 health centers. Methods The expanded D2C model that MDH created during P4C integrated clinical data as a secondary data source to enhance the surveillance data used to estimate HIV patient care engagement. MDH matched and compared health center electronic health records with HIV surveillance data to assess completeness of HIV case and laboratory reporting. Results HIV case ascertainment was high (99.9%) for the P4C cohort (N = 927), but differences in estimated care engagement and viral suppression between data sources revealed incomplete laboratory reporting and that patients received care from multiple providers. Analyzing the clinical data leads to the resolution of several reporting gaps, which improved surveillance data quality over time. Conclusions Health departments should validate their HIV surveillance completeness. Triangulating surveillance data with clinical data generated more accurate depictions of care engagement and increased D2C efficiency. |
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