Open AccessHealthcare use by varied highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) strata
Author(s) -
Herminia Palacio,
Xiuhong Li,
Tracey E. Wilson,
Henry S. Sacks,
Mardge H. Cohen,
Jean L. Richardson,
Mary Young,
Álvaro Muñoz
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
aids
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.195
H-Index - 216
eISSN - 1473-5571
pISSN - 0269-9370
DOI - 10.1097/00002030-200403050-00006
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , odds ratio , antiretroviral therapy , population , emergency department , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , generalized estimating equation , antiretroviral treatment , health care , emergency medicine , pediatrics , viral load , family medicine , environmental health , psychiatry , statistics , mathematics , economics , economic growth
Prior reports have found a temporal association between the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and population rates of health service use among persons living with HIV. Our objective was to explore further the effect of HAART by comparing healthcare use among persons who use HAART and persons who discontinue HAART to that among HAART-naive and HIV-negative persons.