The HIV Outpatient Study (HOPS)
combines medical records data abstraction on HIV-infected adults at
9 HIV clinics in the U.S. with a brief behavioral survey for
patients who agree to complete the survey annually. The 7-minute
survey administered by telephone or through a web interface
includes questions on HIV-positive patients' risk behaviors
(including sexual, drug use, tobacco use) which can then be linked
to diagnoses, treatments and laboratory findings obtained through
the abstraction of medical records, in order to inform secondary
HIV prevention. The HOPS allows for examining the trends in the
epidemiology of chronic HIV disease in this aging U.S. cohort; the
identification of interactions between HIV disease, antiretroviral
therapy, and other comorbidities; the characterization of the
optimal management strategies for HIV-infected patients to reduce
morbidity and mortality (e.g., data on drug toxicities,
effectiveness of clinical interventions); and monitoring of sexual
and drug use behaviors of HIV-infected patients to inform
risk-reduction programs. HOPS data can be used to evaluate the
progress in achieving the goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy
(White House, 2010): to increase retention in HIV care, to reduce
racial/ethnic disparities in treatment outcomes, and to reduce
secondary HIV transmission.
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