The Prospective Effect of Access to Medical Care on Health-Related Quality-of-Life Outcomes in Patients with Symptomatic HIV Disease

William Cunningham, Ron D. Hays, Margot K. Ettl, Wilfrid Joseph Dixon, Rebecca Ching-Chi Liu, C. Keith Beck, Martin F. Shapiro

ResearchPosted on rand.org 1998Published in: Medical Care, v. 36, no. 3, Mar. 1998, p. 295-306

This study examined the prospective effect of reported access to medical care on health-related quality-of-life outcomes in patients with symptomatic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease. It concluded that access to care at baseline predicted better physical and mental health outcomes at three months for those in the middle tertile of physical health and for those in the bottom and middle tertiles of mental health at baseline. Increasing access to care for poor public hospital patients with HIV infection may help to improve health-related quality-of-life outcomes among selected persons with advanced disease.

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  • Copyright: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
  • Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 1998
  • Pages: 12
  • Document Number: EP-199803-11

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