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Routine monitoring and assessment of adults living with HIV: results of the British HIV Association (BHIVA) national audit 2015

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Infectious Diseases, September 2017
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Title
Routine monitoring and assessment of adults living with HIV: results of the British HIV Association (BHIVA) national audit 2015
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BMC Infectious Diseases, September 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12879-017-2708-y
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A. Molloy, H. Curtis, F. Burns, A. Freedman, on behalf of the BHIVA Audit and Standards Sub-Committee

Abstract

The clinical care of people living with HIV changed fundamentally as a result of the development of effective antiretroviral therapy (ART). HIV infection is now a long-term treatable condition. We report a national audit to assess adherence to British HIV Association guidelines for the routine investigation and monitoring of adult HIV-1-infected individuals. All UK sites known as providers of adult HIV outpatient services were invited to complete a case-note review and a brief survey of local clinic practices. Participating sites were asked to randomly select 50-100 adults, who attended for specialist HIV care during 2014 and/or 2015. Each site collected data electronically using a self-audit spreadsheet tool. This included demographic details (gender, ethnicity, HIV exposure, and age) and whether 22 standardised and pre-defined clinical audited outcomes had been recorded. Data were collected on 8258 adults from 123 sites, representing approximately 10% of people living with HIV reported in public health surveillance as attending UK HIV services. Sexual health screening was provided within 96.4% of HIV services, cervical cytology and influenza vaccination within 71.4% of HIV services. There was wide variation in resistance testing across sites. Only 44.9% of patients on ART had a documented 10-year CVD risk within the past three years and fracture risk had been assessed within the past three years for only 16.7% patients aged over 50 years. There was high participation in the national audit and good practice was identified in some areas. However improvements can be made in monitoring of cardiovascular risk, bone and sexual health.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 113 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 13%
Student > Master 14 12%
Student > Bachelor 8 7%
Other 7 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 6%
Other 22 19%
Unknown 40 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 25 22%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 8%
Social Sciences 7 6%
Psychology 6 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 4%
Other 17 15%
Unknown 44 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 December 2017.
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#6,233,306
of 23,577,761 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#1,848
of 7,854 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#96,179
of 317,354 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#33
of 149 outputs
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