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LRC Best Practices Criteria
The LRC Best Practices criteria are used to determine if an intervention demonstrates sufficient evidence for improving the following outcomes:
- Linkage to
- Retention in
- Engagement in HIV care
- Re-engagement in HIV care
- Viral Suppression
The LRC Best Practices contains two sets of criteria to evaluate interventions: Evidence-based and Evidence-informed.
These criteria focus on:
- Quality of study design
- Quality of study implementation and analysis
- strength of evidence of findings
Evidence-Based Interventions (EBIs)
- Evaluate interventions with a comparison arm
- Sample size is ≥ 40 per arm
- Demonstrate significant positive effects for improving LRC outcomes
LRC EBIs provide the strongest evidence of efficacy.
Evidence-Informed Interventions (EIs)
- Evaluate interventions that have one-group designs and pre-post data
- Evaluate interventions with a comparison arm (sample <40 but ≥ 25 per arm)
- Demonstrate significant positive effects for improving LRC outcomes
Interventions have some evidence of working and ideally, need further testing with a comparison group or with larger samples
