Identifying hospitalization episodes of care among people with and without HIV in British Columbia, Canada
Various approaches can be used to define HEoCs. We recommended a balanced HEoC definition - requiring at least one populated hospital identifier field (without requiring matching of hospital identifiers) and ≤ 1 day gap between each hospitalization record for general use purposes in HIV research. Future work may examine these definitions in other settings and populations.
Authors
- Rolando Barrios (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3642-5986)
- Taylor McLinden (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7425-2719)
- Joshua L. Trigg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8173-5791)
- Susanna Emerson
- Paul Sereda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6411-8089)
- RS Hogg
- Sheila Au
- K A Salters
- VD Lima
- KW Kooij
- A M Yonkman
- M O Budu
Institutions
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Simon Fraser University (CA)
- AIDS Vancouver (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Medical Research Methodology
- Published
- 2025-07-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-025-02602-5
- Primary Topic
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research