Adjusting mortality for loss to follow-up: analysis of five ART programmes in sub-Saharan Africa.

<h4>Background</h4>Evaluation of antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes in sub-Saharan Africa is difficult because many patients are lost to follow-up. Outcomes in these patients are generally unknown but studies tracing patients have shown mortality to be high. We adjusted programme-...

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Main Authors: Martin W G Brinkhof, Ben D Spycher, Constantin Yiannoutsos, Ralf Weigel, Robin Wood, Eugène Messou, Andrew Boulle, Matthias Egger, Jonathan A C Sterne, International epidemiological Database to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-11-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21152392/?tool=EBI