Changes to the sample design and weighting methods of a public health surveillance system to also include persons not receiving HIV medical care.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The Medical Monitoring Project (MMP) is a public health surveillance system that provides representative estimates of the experiences and behaviors of adults with diagnosed HIV in the United States. In 2015, the sample design and frame of MMP changed from a system that only included HIV patients to one that captures the experiences of persons receiving and not receiving HIV care. We describe methods investigated for calculating survey weights, the approach chosen, and the benefits of using a dynamic surveillance registry as a sampling frame.

Methods

MMP samples adults with diagnosed HIV from the National HIV Surveillance System, the HIV case surveillance registry for the United States. In the methodological study presented in this manuscript, we compared methods t

SUBMITTER: Johnson CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7714102 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature