MEASURING HIV AIDS CASE-MANAGEMENT

Studies of HIV/AIDS case management have been limited by their almost exclusive focus on adults and by the limitations of available methodol ogies. This study assesses the use of a time study methodology to meas ure the case management activities of 20 case managers in two urban ho spital pediatric and adult HIV/AIDS clinics and in 3 community organiz ations. Case management activity was sampled using a beeper case manag ers carried, which signaled randomly 8 times a day over 5 consecutive days. When the signal ''beeped,'' case managers checked on a form the appropriate descriptor of their involvement in case management tasks a nd with different clients. The results suggest that the Time Study met hodology is a useful and valid way of measuring case management.