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Health administrative data can be used to define a shared care typology for people with HIV

Published: February 21, 2015
Category: Bibliography > Papers
Authors: Glazier RH, Hogg W, Kendall CE, Manuel DG, Taljaard M, Younger J
Countries: Canada
Language: null
Types: Performance Analysis
Settings: Academic, Hospital

J Clin Epidemiol 68:1301-1311.

Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada; University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Ottawa, ON, Canada; Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada; St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

OBJECTIVES: Building on an existing theoretical shared primary care/specialist care framework to (1) develop a unique typology of care for people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Ontario, (2) assess sensitivity of the typology by varying typology definitions, and (3) describe characteristics of typology categories.

STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: Retrospective population-based observational study from April 1, 2009, to March 31, 2012. A total of 13,480 eligible patients with HIV and receiving publicly funded health care in Ontario. We derived a typology of care by linking patients to usual family physicians and to HIV specialists with five possible patterns of care. Patient and physician characteristics and outpatient visits for HIV-related and non-HIV-related care were used to assess the robustness and characteristics of the typology.

RESULTS: Five possible patterns of care were described as low engagement (8.6%), exclusively primary care (52.7%), family physician-dominated comanagement (10.0%), specialist-dominated comanagement (30.5%), and exclusively specialist care (5.2%). Sensitivity analyses demonstrated robustness of typology assignments. Visit patterns varied in ways that conform to typology assignments.

CONCLUSION: We anticipate this typology can be used to assess the impact of care patterns on the quality of primary care for people living with HIV.

PMID: 25835491

Canada,Sensitivity,High-Impact Chronic Conditions,Medical Conditions,Performance Assessment,Adult,Gender,Retrospective Studies,Middle Aged

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