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Prevalence and Predictors of Hospitalizations Among HIV-Infected and At-Risk HIV-Uninfected Women.

J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr

June 2017

*The CORE Center, Cook County Health and Hospitals System, Chicago, IL; †Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Chicago, IL; ‡Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY; §Division of Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; ‖Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; ¶Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York, Brooklyn, NY; #City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA and the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; **Division of Infectious Diseases, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC; and ††Departments of Medicine, Stroger Hospital and Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL.

Objectives: We evaluated the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) Index score, an index composed of age, CD4 count, viral load, hemoglobin, Hepatitis C coinfection, Fibrosis Index-4, and estimated glomerular filtration rate, and psychosocial and clinical risk factors for all-cause hospitalization among HIV-infected women on highly active antiretroviral therapy and HIV-uninfected women.

Methods: Data were collected from 2008 to 2014 from 1585 highly active antiretroviral therapy-experienced HIV infected and 692 uninfected women. Cox proportional hazards regression evaluated predictors of first hospitalization over 2 years.

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Since the publication of "A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals" in 2008, prevention of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) has become a national priority. Despite improvements, preventable HAIs continue to occur. The 2014 updates to the Compendium were created to provide acute care hospitals with up-to-date, practical, expert guidance to assist in prioritizing and implementing their HAI prevention efforts.

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