Achieving QoC Goals Linked to Decreased Mortality in HIV-Infected Patients

Patients who received ≥80% of quality-of-care indicators had a 25% reduction in mortality.

Increasingly, healthcare reform efforts and funding agencies such as the Ryan White Program require tracking of quality-of-care (QoC) measures. To explore that strategy's effects on mortality, researchers analyzed data on HIV-infected patients who enrolled in the Veterans Aging Cohort Study between June 2002 and July 2008. The patients received care at any of eight clinics.

Nine HIV QoC indicators were assessed for the first 12 months after enrollment: receipt of antiretroviral therapy, prophylaxis against Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia and Mycobacterium avium complex infections, screening for hyperlipidemia and hepatitis C, monitoring of CD4-cell counts, receipt of pneumonia and influenza vaccines, and having at least two HIV-clinic visit…

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Keith Henry, MD

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Consultant/Advisory BoardViiV Advisory Board

Editorial BoardsJAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Keith Henry, MD

Disclosures

Consultant/Advisory BoardViiV Advisory Board

Editorial BoardsJAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Achieving QoC Goals Linked to Decreased Mortality in HIV-Infected Patients

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