Review of Data and Literature: Study of Methodologies for Determining Nonacute Care Service Needs for People with AIDS/HIV Infection

摘要

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is seeking to develop needs assessment methods and tools to assist states and metropolitan areas in projecting the nonactute care service needs of HIV-infected people. Major goals of the project are: to define the spectrum of services needed by HIV-infected people with different characteristics in different risk groups; to determine the extent to which different service configurations are appropriate substitutes; and to determine the patient characteristics that affect service needs and service substitutions. The service need and service substitution assumptions generated through the process will serve as inputs to a microcomputer-based AIDS service planning model that is being developed. The model will be designed to enable state and local governments to explore the service needs, and the corresponding range of service delivery options, associated with different assumptions about risk-group-specific AIDS incidence and survival patterns.