Estimating loss to follow-up in HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy: the effect of the competing risk of death in Zambia and Switzerland.

Estimating loss to follow-up in HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy: the effect of the competing risk of death in Zambia and Switzerland.

Loss to follow-up (LTFU) is common in antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes. Mortality is a competing risk (CR) for LTFU; however, it is often overlooked in cohort analyses. We examined how the CR of death affected LTFU estimates in Zambia and Switzerland.HIV-infected patients aged ≥18 years who s...

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Main Authors: Franziska Schöni-Affolter, Olivia Keiser, Albert Mwango, Jeffrey Stringer, Bruno Ledergerber, Lloyd Mulenga, Heiner C Bucher, Andrew O Westfall, Alexandra Calmy, Andrew Boulle, Namwinga Chintu, Matthias Egger, Benjamin H Chi, Swiss HIV Cohort Study, IeDEA Southern Africa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3242760?pdf=render

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