Quality of HIV Care and Mortality Rates in HIV-Infected Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act encourages healthcare systems to track quality-of-care measures; little is known about their impact on mortality rates. The objective of this study was to assess associations between HIV quality of care and mortality rates.

Methods

A longitudinal survival analysis of the Veterans Aging Cohort Study included 3038 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients enrolled between June 2002 and July 2008. The independent variable was receipt of ≥80% of 9 HIV quality indicators (QIs) abstracted from medical records in the 12 months after enrollment. Overall mortality rates through 2014 were assessed from the Veterans Health Administration, Medicare, and Social Security National Death Index records. We assessed associat

SUBMITTER: Korthuis PT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4690479 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature