Application and validation of case-finding algorithms for identifying individuals with human immunodeficiency virus from administrative data in British Columbia, Canada.

To define a population-level cohort of individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the province of British Columbia from available registries and administrative datasets using a validated case-finding algorithm.Individuals were identified for possible cohort inclusion from th...

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Main Authors: Bohdan Nosyk, Guillaume Colley, Benita Yip, Keith Chan, Katherine Heath, Viviane D Lima, Mark Gilbert, Robert S Hogg, P Richard Harrigan, Julio S G Montaner, STOP HIV/AIDS Study Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3557280?pdf=render