Evaluation of Telehealth Visit Attendance After Implementation of a Patient Navigator Program.

Importance: The dramatic rise in use of telehealth accelerated by COVID-19 created new telehealth-specific challenges as patients and clinicians adapted to technical aspects of video visits.

Objective: To evaluate a telehealth patient navigator pilot program to assist patients in overcoming barriers to video visit access.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This quality improvement study investigated visit attendance outcomes among those who received navigator outreach (intervention group) compared with those who did not (comparator group) at 2 US academic primary care clinics during a 12-week study period from April to July 2021.

Household food insecurity associated with antiretroviral therapy adherence among HIV-infected patients in Windhoek, Namibia.

Objective: Food insecurity is emerging as an important barrier to antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. The objective of this study was to determine if food insecurity is associated with poor ART adherence among HIV-positive adults in a resource-limited setting that uses the public health model of delivery.

Design: A cross-sectional study using a 1-time questionnaire and routinely collected pharmacy data.

Metabolic syndrome and serum fatty acid patterns in serum phospholipids in hypertriglyceridemic persons with human immunodeficiency virus.

Background: HIV infection and its treatment are associated with abnormal lipid profiles. High triglyceride concentrations and low HDL-cholesterol concentrations are the most common health abnormalities and raise concerns about an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.

Objective: We compared the fatty acid patterns of serum phospholipids between persons with HIV and non-HIV controls to determine whether there are differences that explain the elevated triglyceride concentrations, insulin resistance, and inflammation that are part of the metabolic syndrome in patients with HIV.

A validation study of body composition by bioelectrical impedance analysis in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive and HIV-negative Hispanic men and women.

Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a potentially useful tool for measuring body composition in people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). However, it is not clear that equations derived in healthy non-Hispanic whites can be applied to people who are of other races or ethnicities and who are infected with HIV. Body composition measures done by BIA, using the equations of Lukaski, were compared to measures of body composition derived from dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) in Hispanic men and women of Caribbean origin (predominantly Puerto Rican) with and without HIV infection.