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Appendix D: Methodological Details of HCSUS Analyses
Pages 261-266

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... , which is a database containing over 6,000 variables for each county in the United States. ARF contains data on health facilities, health professions, measures of health care utilization and expenditures, health status, economic activity, health training programs, and demographic and environmental characteristics.
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From page 262...
... The Committee created a variable called "number of needs," which is simply the number of these questions that the respondent answered affirmatively. The HCSUS interview also asked whether patients had received highly active antiretrovial therapy (HAART)
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From page 263...
... The ARF file contains thousands of variables, but the Committee selected several that it considered representative of the kinds of variables that are likely to be related to resource needs for HIV care. Specifically, the following variables were selected for the regression models: 1.
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From page 264...
... Results The models indicate that the education in an area, the number of general practice physicians, and the number of specialists in an area are statistically significant predictors of the number or needs reported by individuals. Specifically, persons reported more needs if they lived in areas with fewer college educated persons, fewer general practitioners, and more medical specialists.
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From page 265...
... :12­22. Shapiro MF, Morton SC, McCaffrey DF, Senterfitt JW, Fleishman JA, Perlman JF, Athey LA, Keesey JW, Goldman DP, Berry SH, Bozzette SA.
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