Measures of Quality of Care for People with HIV: A Scoping Review of Performance Indicators for Primary Care.

ABSTRACT: The healthcare of people with HIV is transitioning from specialty care to the primary healthcare (PHC) system. However, many of the performance indicators used to measure the quality of HIV care pre-date this transition. The goal of this work was to examine how existing HIV care performance indicators measure the comprehensive and longitudinal care offered in a PHC setting. A scoping review consisting of peer-reviewed and grey literature searches was performed. Two reviewers evaluated study eligibility and indicators in documents meeting inclusion criteria were extracted into a database. Indicators were matched to a PHC performance measurement framework to determine their applicability for evaluating quality of care in the PHC setting. The literature search identified 221 publications, of

SUBMITTER: Johnston S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4586139 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature