Misclassification of Loss to Care Among Persons with HIV: Improved Capture of Silent Transfers through Surveillance Linkage using Statewide Mandatorily Reported Laboratory Measures
AUTHORS
Sack
DE ,
Brantley
M ,
Ratliff
M ,
Mathieson
S ,
Turner
M ,
Pettit
AC ,
Sterling
TR ,
Rebeiro
PF ,
. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2023 8 9; ().
- PMID: 37555632 [PubMed].
ABSTRACT
HIV-positive individuals lost to follow-up from particular clinics may not be lost to care (LTC). After linking Vanderbilt’s Comprehensive Care Clinic cohort to Tennessee’s statewide HIV surveillance database, LTC decreased from 48.4% to 35.0% at 10 years. Routine surveillance-linkage by domestic HIV clinics would improve LTC and retention measure accuracy.
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