A retrospective notes-based review of patients lost to follow-up from anti-retroviral therapy at Mulanje Mission Hospital, Malawi
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True outcomes for patients on antiretroviral therapy who are "lost to follow-up" in Malawi.
PROBLEM In many resource-poor countries that are scaling up antiretroviral therapy (ART), 5-25% of patients are reported as "lost to follow-up". This figure is 9% in Malawi. There is no published information about the true outcome status of these patients. APPROACH In four facilities in northern Malawi, ART registers and master cards were used to identify patients who had not attended the fac...
متن کاملLost to follow-up.
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عنوان ژورنال: Malawi Medical Journal
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1995-7262,1995-7262
DOI: 10.4314/mmj.v30i2.4