Journal
HIV MEDICINE
Volume 20, Issue 8, Pages 567-570Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/hiv.12757
Keywords
cohort; Department of Veterans Affairs; epidemiology; HIV; validation
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- NIH Provocative Questions (PQ3) research grant from the National Institute of Health [CA206476-03]
- VA Health Services Research Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety [CIN 13-413]
- Department of Veterans Affairs [CX001430]
- Creative and Novel Ideas in HIV Research (CNIHR) [AI027767]
- Office of AIDS Research
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- International AIDS Society
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Objectives The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the largest integrated health care provider for HIV-infected patients in the USA. VA data for HIV-specific clinical and quality improvement research are an important resource. We sought to determine the accuracy of using the VA Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW), a fully automated medical records database for all VA users nationally, to identify HIV-infected patients compared with a gold-standard VA HIV Clinical Case Registry (CCR). Methods We assessed the test performance characteristics of each of our CDW criteria-based algorithms (presence of one, two or all of the following: diagnostic codes for HIV, positive HIV laboratory tests, and prescription for HIV medication) by calculating their sensitivity (proportion of HIV-positive patients in the CCR accurately detected as HIV-positive by the CDW algorithm) and positive predictive value (PPV; the proportion of patients identified by the CDW algorithm who were classified as HIV-positive from the CCR). Results We found that using a CDW algorithm requiring two of three HIV diagnostic criteria yielded the highest sensitivity (95.2%) with very little trade-off in PPV (93.5%). Conclusions A two diagnostic criteria-based algorithm can be utilized to accurately identify HIV-infected cohorts seen in the nationwide VA health care system.
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