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Ilenia Alongi

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Behavioral and clinical characteristics of people receiving medical care for HIV infection in an outpatient facility in Sicily, Italy

2016

Paola Di Carlo,1 Giuliana Guadagnino,1 Palmira Immordino,1 Giovanni Mazzola,2 Pietro Colletti,2 Ilenia Alongi,1 Lucia Adamoli,1 Francesco Vitale,1 Alessandra Casuccio1 1Department of Sciences for Health Promotion and Mother-Child Care “G D’Alessandro”, University of Palermo, 2Department of Medicinal Clinics and Emerging Diseases, “Paolo Giaccone” Polyclinic University Hospital, Palermo, Italy Aim: The authors examined a cohort of HIV-positive outpatients at the AIDS Center of Palermo University in Italy in order to identify factors related to the frequency of their visits to the outpatient facility for health care services.Methods: Two hundr…

0301 basic medicinemedicine.medical_specialtyMultivariate analysisSettore MED/17 - Malattie Infettivehard-to-reach groups030106 microbiologyHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV)Medicine (miscellaneous)HIV Outpatient Servicemedicine.disease_causeSettore MED/42 - Igiene Generale E Applicata03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineOutpatient facilityAmbulatory careAcquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)CD4+ T-cell countHealth careMedicine030212 general & internal medicinePharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous)Access to care; CD4+ T-cell count; Hard-to-reach groups; HIV infection; HIV outpatient service; Resource use; Social Sciences (miscellaneous); Medicine (miscellaneous); Health Policy; Pharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous)Original Researchaccess to carelcsh:R5-920business.industryHealth PolicyUnivariatemedicine.diseaseHIV infectionresource usePatient Preference and AdherenceEmergency medicineCohortbusinesslcsh:Medicine (General)Hard-to-reach groupSocial Sciences (miscellaneous)
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Determinants of HIV outpatient service utilization according to HIV parameters

2014

Introduction : The increased life expectancy of HIV patients in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy has had profound consequences for the healthcare systems that provide their care. It is useful to assess whether healthcare resources need to be adapted to the different stages of HIV infection or to patient characteristics [1]. To study how patient features influence utilization of out patient services, we retrospectively analyzed the electronic health record of HIV-positive patients who had followed day-care programs at the AIDS Center of the University of Palermo, Italy. Materials and Methods : 223 HIV-infected subjects were recruited and divided into two groups according to CD…

Pediatricsmedicine.medical_specialtySettore MED/17 - Malattie Infettivebusiness.industryPublic Health Environmental and Occupational HealthDay careSettore MED/42 - Igiene Generale E ApplicataLogistic regressionmedicine.diseaseHIV outpatient serviceSubstance abuseInfectious DiseasesPharmacotherapyHIV Health care outpatientsAcquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)Poster Sessions – Abstract P079Health caremedicineLife expectancybusinessDyslipidemiaJournal of the International AIDS Society
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