Loss to clinic and five-year mortality among HIV-infected antiretroviral therapy initiators.

Missing outcome data due to loss to follow-up occurs frequently in clinical cohort studies of HIV-infected patients. Censoring patients when they become lost can produce inaccurate results if the risk of the outcome among the censored patients differs from the risk of the outcome among patients rema...

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Main Authors: Jessie K Edwards, Stephen R Cole, Daniel Westreich, Richard Moore, Christopher Mathews, Elvin Geng, Joseph J Eron, Michael J Mugavero, CNICS Research Network
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4092142?pdf=render