Healthcare resource utilization and costs in patients with HIV-1 who switched first-line antiretroviral therapy.

Conclusions: Patients with HIV-1 who initiated PI- or NNRTI-based regimens and switched ARTs for reasons other than virologic failure used more healthcare resources and incurred greater costs relative to patients in the non-switch cohort. This study highlights the importance of initiating patients on appropriate first-line ART to avoid the need to switch due to reasons other than virologic failure. PMID: 31311342 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Current Medical Research and Opinion - Category: Research Tags: Curr Med Res Opin Source Type: research