Author | year | Country | Study design | Objective | No. of clinical care indicators | Selection criteria |
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1989, 1997 | USA | Retrospective cohort | To study patients whose episode of care for pneumocystis pneumonia began on the date of hospital admission, and examine outcomes and processes of care limited to the patient portion of the care episode. | 20, 11 | Undefined | |
Wu et al. [23] | 2000 | USA | Review | To review concepts related to quality of care | 17 | Expert panel |
Asch et al. [24] | 2004 | USA | Cross-Sectional Study | To evaluate HIV quality of care using a symptom-based, patient-centered framework. | 12 | Expert panel |
Salomon et al. [25] | 2005 | USA | Cohort study | To assess the impact of patient volume on the quality of care received by AIDS patients within a state’s Medicaid managed system. | 15 | Guidelines |
Wilson at al. [26] | 2007 | USA | Cross-Sectional Study | To determine whether a selected set of indicators can represent a single overall quality construct. | 8 | Guidelines |
UNGASS Indicator registry [22] | 2008 | USA | Project | To be a central repository of information on indicators used to track the AIDS epidemic and the national, regional and global response. | 9 | Guidelines and Expert panel |
Alemayehu et al. [29] | 2009 | Ethiopia | Cross-Sectional Study | To assess the quality of clinical care provided to patients with HIV in Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital. | 14 | Guidelines and Expert panel |
Horberg et al. [27] | 2010 | USA | Project | To establish a single set of aligned HIV quality measures for care processes and intermediate outcomes for external accountability and individual quality improvement. | 17 | Guidelines and Expert panel |
Hoskins et al. [32] | 2010 | Malawi | Conceptual modeling | To discuss the challenges of monitoring the progress of the treated population in low-income countries by describing the lack of consensus on indicators, and the burden associated with compiling them. | 5 | Guidelines and Expert panel |
von Wichmann et al. [30] | 2010 | Spain | Project | To design the present quality of care indicators for persons with HIV/AIDS. | 25 | Expert panel |
Korthuis et al. [28] | 2011 | USA | Observational cohort | To examine the impact of buprenorphine/naloxone (bup/nx) treatment on quality of HIV care in a multisite cohort of patients with coexisting opioid dependence and HIV infection. | 16 | Guidelines and Expert panel |
Thanprasertsuk et al. [31] | 2012 | Thailand | Program evaluation | To report experience of HIVQUAL-T implementation in Thailand. | 14 | Guidelines |