Misreporting of Patient Outcomes in the South African National HIV Treatment Database: Consequences for Programme Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation

Background: Monitoring progress toward global treatment targets using HIV programme data in sub-Saharan Africa has proved challenging. Constraints in routine data collection and reporting can lead to biased estimates of treatment outcomes. In 2010, South Africa introduced an electronic patient monit...

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Main Authors: David Etoori, Alison Wringe, Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula, Jenny Renju, Brian Rice, F. Xavier Gomez-Olive, Georges Reniers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
Subjects:
HIV
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00100/full