Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học 'Respiratory Research cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: "Socioeconomic status (SES) as a determinant of adherence to treatment in HIV infected patients: a systematic review of the literature. | Retrovirology o BioMed Central Socioeconomic status SES as a determinant of adherence to treatment in HIV infected patients a systematic review of the literature Matthew E Falagas 1 2 Efstathia A Zarkadoulia1 Paraskevi A Pliatsika1 and George Panos3 Address 1Alfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences AIBS Athens Greece 2Department of Medicine Tufts University School of Medicine Boston Massachusetts USA and 3HIV unit 1st IKA Hospital Athens Greece Email Matthew E Falagas - Efstathia AZarkadoulia - Paraskevi A Pliatsika - George Panos - panmedix@ Corresponding author Published I February 2008 Received 6 November 2007 Retrovirology 2008 5 13 doi 1 742-4690-5-1 3 Accepted 1 February 2008 This article is available from http content 5 1 13 2008 Falagas et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Objectives It has been shown that socioeconomic status SES is associated with adherence to treatment of patients with several chronic diseases. However there is a controversy regarding the impact of SES on adherence among patients with the human immunodeficiency virus HIV infection or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome AIDS . Thus we sought to perform a systematic review of the evidence regarding the association of SES with adherence to treatment of patients with HIV AIDS. Methods We searched the PubMed database to identify studies concerning SES and HIV AIDS and collected data regarding the association between various determinants of SES income education occupation and adherence. Findings We initially identified 116 potentially relevant articles and reviewed in detail 17 original studies which contained data that were helpful
