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All-Cause Mortality In Hiv-Positive Adults Starting Combination Antiretroviral Therapy: Correcting For Loss To Follow-Up, Nanina Anderegg, Leigh F. Johnson, Elizabeth Zaniewski, Keri N. Althoff, Eric Balestre, Matthew Law, Denis Nash, Bryan E. Shepherd, Constantin T. Yiannoutsos, Matthias Egger
All-Cause Mortality In Hiv-Positive Adults Starting Combination Antiretroviral Therapy: Correcting For Loss To Follow-Up, Nanina Anderegg, Leigh F. Johnson, Elizabeth Zaniewski, Keri N. Althoff, Eric Balestre, Matthew Law, Denis Nash, Bryan E. Shepherd, Constantin T. Yiannoutsos, Matthias Egger
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Objective: To estimate mortality in HIV-positive patients starting combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) and to discuss different approaches to calculating correction factors to account for loss to follow-up.
Methods: A total of 222 096 adult HIV-positive patients who started ART 2009–2014 in clinics participating in the International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS collaboration in 43 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and North America were included. To allow for underascertainment of deaths due to loss to follow-up, two correction factors (one for the period 0–6 months on ART and one for later periods) or 168 correction factors (combinations of …