From access to engagement: measuring retention in outpatient HIV clinical care.

摘要: Abstract Engagement in HIV care is increasingly recognized as a crucial step maximizing individual patient outcomes. The recently updated Medicine Association primary guidelines include new recommendation highlighting the importance of extending adherence beyond antiretroviral medications to clinical care. Beyond health, emphasis on “test and treat” approach prevention highlights public health engagement an essential intermediary between putative benefits universal testing (“test”) followed by ubiquitous treatment (“treat”). One challenge administrators, researchers clinicians who want systematically evaluate deciding how measure retention Measuring complex this process includes multiple clinic visits (repeated measures) occurring longitudinally over time. This article provides synthesis five commonly used measur...