Is HIV patient navigation associated with HIV care continuum outcomes?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To provide the first systematic review on the associations between HIV patient navigation and HIV care continuum outcomes (i.e. linkage to care, retention in care, antiretroviral therapy (ART) uptake, medication adherence, and viral suppression) in the United States. We identified primary research studies that addressed these associations and qualitatively assessed whether provision of patient navigation was positively associated with these outcomes, including strength of the evidence.

Methods

A systematic review, including both electronic [MEDLINE (OVID), EMBASE (OVID), PsycINFO (OVID), and CINAHL (EBSCOhost)] online databases and manual searches, was conducted to locate studies published from 1 January 1996 through 23 April 2018.

Results

Twenty studies met

SUBMITTER: Mizuno Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6724743 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature