Validation of Race/Ethnicity and Transmission Mode in the US HIV/Aids Reporting System

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ID11030577
AuthorsLisa M Lee (0000-0002-3397-3269, Lisa M. Lee, J. Stan Lehman, and Patricia L. Fleming are with the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention—Surveillance and Epidemiology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga. Andrew B. Bindman is with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.), J Stan Lehman (Lisa M. Lee, J. Stan Lehman, and Patricia L. Fleming are with the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention—Surveillance and Epidemiology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga. Andrew B. Bindman is with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.), Andrew B Bindman (0000-0002-6161-0609, Lisa M. Lee, J. Stan Lehman, and Patricia L. Fleming are with the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention—Surveillance and Epidemiology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga. Andrew B. Bindman is with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.), Patricia L Fleming (Lisa M. Lee, J. Stan Lehman, and Patricia L. Fleming are with the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention—Surveillance and Epidemiology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga. Andrew B. Bindman is with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.)
Year2003
Volume93
Issue6
Pages914-917
Publication date2003-06-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.93.6.914
PMID12773353
OpenAlexW2086092461
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited8

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

Environmental health · Ethnic group · Family medicine · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Race (biology) · Sociology · Data-Driven Disease Surveillance · Demography · Gender Studies · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine

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