ReviewCurrent opinion in HIV and AIDS2015
Quasi-experiments to establish causal effects of HIV care and treatment and to improve the cascade of care.
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- Initiation of Dolutegravir Versus Efavirenz on Viral Suppression and Retention at 6 months: A Regression Discontinuity Design.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2025Article
- Level of Alcohol Use Associated with HIV Care Continuum Targets in a National U.S. Sample of Persons Living with HIV Receiving Healthcare.AIDS and behavior · 2019Article
- Medication Side Effects and Retention in HIV Treatment: A Regression Discontinuity Study of Tenofovir Implementation in South Africa and Zambia.American journal of epidemiology · 2018Article
- Using Registry Data to Construct a Comparison Group for Programmatic Effectiveness Evaluation: The New York City HIV Care Coordination Program.American journal of epidemiology · 2018Article
- HIV Treatment Substantially Decreases Hospitalization Rates: Evidence From Rural South Africa.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2018Article
- Estimating the real-world effects of expanding antiretroviral treatment eligibility: Evidence from a regression discontinuity analysis in Zambia.PLoS medicine · 2018Article
- Treatment eligibility and retention in clinical HIV care: A regression discontinuity study in South Africa.PLoS medicine · 2017Article
- Evaluating Testing Strategies for Identifying Youths With HIV Infection and Linking Youths to Biomedical and Other Prevention Services.JAMA pediatrics · 2017Observational
- Do gifts increase consent to home-based HIV testing? A difference-in-differences study in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.International journal of epidemiology · 2016Article
- Alcohol Use and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Current Knowledge, Implications, and Future Directions.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2016Review
- Regression discontinuity designs in healthcare research.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2016Review
- Regression Discontinuity for Causal Effect Estimation in Epidemiology.Current epidemiology reportsReview
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Abstract
purpose of reviewRandomized, population-representative trials of clinical interventions are rare. Quasi-experiments have been used successfully to generate causal evidence on the cascade of HIV care in a broad range of real-world settings. RECENT
findingsQuasi-experiments exploit exogenous, or quasi-random, variation occurring naturally in the world or because of an administrative rule or policy change to estimate causal effects. Well designed quasi-experiments have greater internal validity than typical observational research designs. At the same time, quasi-experiments may also have potential for greater external validity than experiments and can be implemented when randomized clinical trials are infeasible or unethical. Quasi-experimental studies have established the causal effects of HIV testing and initiation of antiretroviral therapy on health, economic outcomes and sexual behaviors, as well as indirect effects on other community members. Recent quasi-experiments have evaluated specific interventions to improve patient performance in the cascade of care, providing causal evidence to optimize clinical management of HIV. SUMMARY: Quasi-experiments have generated important data on the real-world impacts of HIV testing and treatment and on interventions to improve the cascade of care. With the growth in large-scale clinical and administrative data, quasi-experiments enable rigorous evaluation of policies implemented in real-world settings.
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