Estimating Loss to Follow-Up in HIV-Infected Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy: The Effect of the Competing Risk of Death in Zambia and Switzerland

BACKGROUND: 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. METHODS AND FINDINGS: HIV-inf...

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Autores principales: Schöni-Affolter, Franziska, Keiser, Olivia, Mwango, Albert, Stringer, Jeffrey, Ledergerber, Bruno, Mulenga, Lloyd, Bucher, Heiner C., Westfall, Andrew O., Calmy, Alexandra, Boulle, Andrew, Chintu, Namwinga, Egger, Matthias, Chi, Benjamin H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3242760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22205933
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0027919

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