Not all are lost: interrupted laboratory monitoring, early death, and loss to follow-up (LTFU) in a large South African treatment program

Many HIV treatment programs in resource-limited settings are plagued by high rates of loss to follow-up (LTFU). Most studies have not distinguished between those who briefly interrupt, but return to care, and those more chronically lost to follow-up. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 11,3...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2012-03, Vol.7 (3), p.e32993-e32993
Hauptverfasser:	Ahonkhai, Aima A, Noubary, Farzad, Munro, Alison, Stark, Ruth, Wilke, Marisa, Freedberg, Kenneth A, Wood, Robin, Losina, Elena
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acquired immune deficiency syndrome Adults AIDS AIDS treatment Antiretroviral agents Antiretroviral drugs Antiretroviral therapy Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active - statistics & numerical data Bone surgery Care and treatment CD4 antigen Clinics Cohort Studies Death Drug therapy Highly active antiretroviral therapy HIV HIV Infections - drug therapy HIV Infections - epidemiology Hospitals Human immunodeficiency virus Humans Infectious diseases Laboratories Logistic Models Lost to Follow-Up Medicine Monitoring Mortality Multilevel Patient Compliance - statistics & numerical data Patients Primary care Public health Regression analysis Regression models Retrospective Studies South Africa - epidemiology Viremia Womens health
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