Measuring Retention in HIV Care in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Impact of Telehealth

It is unknown how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted traditional measures of retention in HIV care. We calculated six different retention measures at an urban HIV care clinic for two time periods: pre-pandemic, and during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with and without inclusion of telehealth...

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Autores principales: Ridgway, Jessica P., Massey, Ruby, Mason, Joseph A., Devlin, Samantha, Friedman, Eleanor E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9531214/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36194349
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-022-03875-3
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Sumario:It is unknown how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted traditional measures of retention in HIV care. We calculated six different retention measures at an urban HIV care clinic for two time periods: pre-pandemic, and during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with and without inclusion of telehealth appointments. Spearman rank correlation was used to assess correlation between different measures of retention. For both the pre-pandemic and pandemic time periods, there was strong correlation among measures of missed visits (range 0.857–0.957). More patients were considered retained in care during the pandemic when telehealth appointments were included in the analysis.

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