Strong Agreement of Nationally Recommended Retention Measures from the Institute of Medicine and Department of Health and Human Services

Peter F Rebeiro, Michael A Horberg, Stephen J Gange, Kelly A Gebo, Baligh R Yehia, John T Brooks, Kate Buchacz, Michael J Silverberg, John Gill, Richard D Moore, Keri N Althoff and for the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD)

PLOS ONE, 2014, vol. 9, issue 11, 1-5

Abstract: Objective: We sought to quantify agreement between Institute of Medicine (IOM) and Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) retention indicators, which have not been compared in the same population, and assess clinical retention within the largest HIV cohort collaboration in the U.S. Design: Observational study from 2008–2010, using clinical cohort data in the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD). Methods: Retention definitions used HIV primary care visits. The IOM retention indicator was: ≥2 visits, ≥90 days apart, each calendar year. This was extended to a 2-year period; retention required meeting the definition in both years. The DHHS retention indicator was: ≥1 visit each semester over 2 years, each ≥60 days apart. Kappa statistics detected agreement between indicators and C statistics (areas under Receiver-Operating Characteristic curves) from logistic regression analyses summarized discrimination of the IOM indicator by the DHHS indicator. Results: Among 36,769 patients in 2008–2009 and 34,017 in 2009–2010, there were higher percentages of participants retained in care under the IOM indicator than the DHHS indicator (80% vs. 75% in 2008–2009; 78% vs. 72% in 2009–2010, respectively) (p

Date: 2014
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