Treating loss-to-follow-up as a missing data problem: a case study using a longitudinal cohort of HIV-infected patients in Haiti

Treating loss-to-follow-up as a missing data problem: a case study using a longitudinal cohort of HIV-infected patients in Haiti

Abstract Background HIV programs are often assessed by the proportion of patients who are alive and retained in care; however some patients are categorized as lost to follow-up (LTF) and have unknown vital status. LTF is not an outcome but a mixed category of patients who have undocumented death, tr...

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Main Authors: Deanna P. Jannat-Khah, Michelle Unterbrink, Margaret McNairy, Samuel Pierre, Dan W. Fitzgerald, Jean Pape, Arthur Evans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-11-01
Series:BMC Public Health
Subjects:
HIV
AIDS
Kaplan Meier
Complete case
Multiple imputation
Inverse probability weights
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-018-6115-0

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