| Title |
Estimating Loss to Follow-Up in HIV-Infected Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy: The Effect of the Competing Risk of Death in Zambia and Switzerland
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, December 2011
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0027919 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Franziska Schöni-Affolter, Olivia Keiser, Albert Mwango, Jeffrey Stringer, Bruno Ledergerber, Lloyd Mulenga, Heiner C. Bucher, Andrew O. Westfall, Alexandra Calmy, Andrew Boulle, Namwinga Chintu, Matthias Egger, Benjamin H. Chi |
| Abstract |
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. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 2% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Malawi | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 132 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 30 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 22 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 13% |
| Other | 9 | 6% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 9 | 6% |
| Other | 28 | 20% |
| Unknown | 23 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 61 | 44% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 16 | 12% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 6% |
| Mathematics | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 15 | 11% |
| Unknown | 25 | 18% |