Validation of Race/Ethnicity and Transmission Mode in the US HIV/AIDS Reporting System
Year: 2003
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Since 1981, the national HIV/AIDS reporting system (HARS) has provided data to track the progression of the AIDS epidemic, detect patterns of transmission, assess prevention programs, provide an epidemiological basis for planning, and allocate federal resources.1 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention actively evaluate the quality of the data to ensure that the objectives of the system are based on accurate and complete information.2–5
The HARS relies on medical record reviews by health care providers or trained health department personnel for completion of case reports. Validity studies of medical record data have shown that accuracy and reliability vary according to the type of information and the diagnoses examined.2,4,6 To assess the accuracy of 2 HARS variables on which data are frequently stratified, we compared HARS data on race/ethnicity and transmission mode to self-reported data collected during a survey of people with AIDS.
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2086092461