Masley S, Sokoloff J, Hawes C. Planning group visits for high-risk patients. Family Practice Management. 2000;7(6):33-37.

The benefits of group visits including an increase in adherence/compliance, improvement of patient satisfaction, and reduction in health care expenses, counter the ever-increasing physician demands that threaten patient education and outcomes.

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Rollnick S, Mason P, Butler C
London, England, UK: Churchill-Livingstone; 1999

Client scenarios and snippets from practitioner/client interactions illustrate a method for changing health behaviors based on brief negotiation with clients. The method’s fundamental principles are explored through practical application of the theoretical points.

Kaplan JE, Parham DL, Soto-Torres L, et al. Adherence to guidelines for antiretroviral therapy and for preventing opportunistic infection in HIV-infected adults and adolescents in Ryan White-funded facilities in the United States. Journal of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. 1999;21(3):228-235.

Although adherence by health care providers to guidelines for antiretroviral therapy and for prevention of opportunistic infections is generally high, improvement around prevention measures would especially benefit injection drug users.

Kalichman SC, Ramachandran B, Catz S. Adherence to combination antiretroviral therapies in HIV patients of low health literacy. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 1999;14(5):267-273.

This study reinforces the significance of health literacy relative to predictors of adherence to treatment for HIV/AIDS disease. Improved intervention programs are needed to help persons of low literacy adhere to antiretroviral therapies.

Gifford A, Bormann J, Shively M, et al. Predictors of self-reported adherence and plasma HIV concentrations in patients on multidrug antiretroviral regimens. Journal of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndromes. 2000;23(5):386-395.

This study examines the relation of plasma HIV suppression as effected by multidrug antiretroviral adherence, and better integration of a patient’s daily medication routine.

Department of Health and Human Services. Guidelines for the use of antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected adults and adolescents. Annals of Internal Medicine. 1998;128:1079-1100.

These guidelines — developed by the Panel on Clinical Practices for the Treatment of HIV Infection, through a joint effort of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation — are frequently-updated “living documents.”

Recent updates can be found at the AIDSinfo website.

Cabana MD, Rand CS, Powe NR, et al. Why don't physicians follow clinical practice guidelines? A framework for improvement. Journal of the American Medical Association. 1999;282(15):1458-1465.

This review examines barriers around physician guideline adherence and offers a rational approach toward improving guideline adherence and a framework for future research.

Bozzette SA, Berry SH, Duan N, Frankel MR, et al. The care of HIV-infected adults in the United States: HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study Consortium. New England Journal of Medicine. 1998;339(26):1897-1904.

The HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study is the first major research effort to collect information on a nationally representative sample of people in care for HIV infection. HCSUS is examining costs of care, utilization of a wide array of services, access to care, quality of care, quality of life, unmet needs for medical and non-medical services, social support, satisfaction with medical care, and knowledge of HIV therapies.

Berwick D. We all have AIDS: Case for reducing the cost of HIV drugs to zero. British Medical Journal. 2002;324(7331):214-216.

An editorial in the Washington Post challenged directors of drug companies to reduce the cost of HIV drugs in poor countries to zero. The reproduced editorial in the British Medical Journal is accompanied by a discussion about why it was written and the response to it.

Bartlett JG, Gallant JE
Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press; 2005

This clinical handbook of HIV/AIDS care is fully updated every year by the Johns Hopkins University AIDS Service.