Who Will Show? Predicting Missed Visits Among Patients in Routine HIV Primary Care in the United States

Overview

Journal AIDS Behav

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2018 Jul 15

PMID 30006790

Citations 28

Authors

Brian W Pence

Angela M Bengtson

Stephen Boswell

Katerina A Christopoulos

Heidi M Crane

Elvin Geng

Jeanne C Keruly

W Christopher Mathews

Michael J Mugavero

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Abstract

Missed HIV medical visits predict poor clinical outcomes. We sought to identify patients at high risk of missing visits. We analyzed 2002-2014 data from six large US HIV clinics. At each visit, we predicted the likelihood of missing the next scheduled visit using demographic, clinical, and patient-reported psychosocial variables. Overall, 10,374 participants contributed 105,628 HIV visits. For 17% of visits, the next scheduled appointment was missed. The strongest predictor of a future missed visit was past-year missed visits. A model with only this predictor had area under the receiver operator curve = 0.65; defining "high risk" as those with any past-year missed visits had 73% sensitivity and 51% specificity in correctly identifying a future missed visit. Inclusion of other clinical and psychosocial predictors only slightly improved performance. Past visit attendance can identify those at increased risk for future missed visits, allowing for proactive allocation of resources to those at greatest risk.

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