Table 5.
Estimated Number of Full-time Equivalent Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Care Providers Who Entered Practice or Plan to Leave Practice Within 5 Years at All Healthcare Facilities and Providers Only at Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program–Funded Facilities—Medical Monitoring Project, 2013–2014 Provider Survey
| Provider | FTE Providersa,b Who Entered Practice Within 5 y (n = 216)
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FTE Providersa,b Who Will Leave Practice Within 5 y (n = 109)
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Difference Between Weighted Estimates | (95% CI) | P Valuec | ||
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| Weighted Estimate | (95% CI) | Weighted Estimate | (95% CI) | ||||
| All providers | 443 | (322–564) | 253 | (173–334) | 190 | (50–330) | .007 |
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| Providers at RWHAP-funded facilities | 268 | (192–343) | 148 | (72–223) | 120 | (18–222) | .02 |
Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; FTE, full-time equivalent; n, calculated number of FTEs in sample; RWHAP, Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.
Full-time equivalent defined as 40 hours of patient care performed per week by 1 or more persons.
Includes face-to-face contact, documentation, phone calls/emails to patients, educating families, reviewing tests, and consulting with other providers.
P value obtained using lincom postestimation command in STATA.