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.
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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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description 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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spelling pubmed-95312142022-10-04 Measuring Retention in HIV Care in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Impact of Telehealth Ridgway, Jessica P. Massey, Ruby Mason, Joseph A. Devlin, Samantha Friedman, Eleanor E. AIDS Behav Original Paper 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. Springer US 2022-10-04 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9531214/ /pubmed/36194349 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-022-03875-3 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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