ArticleJournal of public health (Oxford, England)2017
The impact of an HIV/AIDS adult integrated health program on leaving hospital against medical advice among HIV-positive people who use illicit drugs.
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- Identifying hospitalization episodes of care among people with and without HIV in British Columbia, Canada.BMC medical research methodology · 2025Article
- Frame Shift: Focusing on Harm Reduction and Shared Decision Making for People Who Use Drugs Hospitalized With Infections.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2024Article
- Against Medical Advice Discharges in Injection and Non-injection Drug Use-associated Infective Endocarditis: A Nationwide Cohort Study.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Article
- Hospital admissions and mortality due to complications of injection drug use in two hospitals in Regina, Canada: retrospective chart review.Harm reduction journal · 2021Article
- Supervised consumption services for acute care hospital patients.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2020Article
- Impact of personality disorders on leaving hospital against medical advice among people living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2019Article
- "Maybe if I stop the drugs, then maybe they'd care?"-hospital care experiences of people who use drugs.Harm reduction journal · 2019Article
- Supervised injection facilities in Canada: past, present, and future.Harm reduction journal · 2017Review
- Physician Practices in Against Medical Advice Discharges.Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare QualityArticle
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Abstract
Background: Leaving hospital against medical advice (AMA) is a major source of avoidable morbidity, mortality and healthcare expenditure. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of an innovative HIV/AIDS adult integrated health program on leaving hospital AMA among HIV-positive people who use illicit drugs (PWUD). Methods: Using generalized estimating equations, we examined the relationship between being a participant of the Dr. Peter Centre (DPC), a specialty HIV/AIDS-focused adult integrated health program, and leaving hospital AMA among a cohort of HIV-positive PWUD patients. Results: Between July 2005 and July 2011, 181 HIV-positive PWUD who experienced ≥1 hospitalization were recruited into the study. Of the 406 hospital admissions among these individuals, 73 (39.9%) participants left the hospital AMA. In a multivariable model adjusted for confounders, being a participant of the DPC was independently associated with lower odds of leaving hospital AMA (adjusted odds ratio = 0.42; 95% confidence interval: 0.19-0.89). Conclusions: Our findings suggest that the provision of a broad range of clinical, harm reduction and support services through an innovative HIV/AIDS-focused adult integrated health program operating in proximity to a hospital may curb the rate at which individuals leave hospital prematurely.
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