Scientific article

English

Estimating loss to follow-up in HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy: the effect of the competing risk of death in Zambia and Switzerland

ContributorsSchöni-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

Published inPloS one, vol. 6, no. 12, e27919

Publication date2011

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.

Keywords

Adult
Anti-HIV Agents/therapeutic use
Cohort Studies
Female
HIV Infections/drug therapy/epidemiology/mortality
Humans
Lost to Follow-Up
Male
Middle Aged
Proportional Hazards Models
Risk
Switzerland/epidemiology
Zambia/epidemiology

Affiliation entities

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine

Research groups

VIH/SIDA (930)

Citation (ISO format)

SCHÖNI-AFFOLTER, Franziska et al. Estimating loss to follow-up in HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy: the effect of the competing risk of death in Zambia and Switzerland. In: PloS one, 2011, vol. 6, n° 12, p. e27919. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027919

Article (Published version)

Identifiers

PID : unige:31630
DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0027919
PMID : 22205933

Journal ISSN1932-6203

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