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At the risk sounding somewhat repetitive; conceptually, Patient Satisfaction, Satisfaction with Care, and Treatment Satisfaction should be clearly distinguished from each other both on their scope measurement (i.e., level of generality-specificity) and on their context of measurement (e.g., satisfaction with healthcare, care provided by providers, characteristics of treatment etc).
32 34 Both correlation among repeated measures over time on the same subject and correlation due to clustering of patients within providers (characteristics of the providers or practice which may influence outcomes among their patients) will be taken into account.
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We noted the reported direction of change (positive (statistically significant increase in access), negative (non-significant increase in access), inconclusive (mixed, for example initial increase that was not sustained)), and related this to the type of intervention or strategy used, the setting and provider, characteristics of the target population and the health system level targeted.
In 101 studies, the influence of provider characteristics on patients' choices was investigated.
More rigorous and detailed qualitative work would be helpful in this, particularly in explaining how provider characteristics—or the absence of a provider in person influence interventions.
Because the nature of this research question is suitable for quantitative analysis, we quantitatively analysed the studies that investigated the influence of provider characteristics on patients' choices.
However, the effect of provider characteristics on outcomes from ART has not been previously examined among drug-using HIV-infected populations.
We found in our study that the impact of provider characteristics on adherence and achieving virologic suppression varies stratifying by the patient's antiretroviral status.
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