Establishment, Retention, and Loss to Follow-Up in Outpatient HIV Care
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Comparing different measures of retention in outpatient HIV care.
OBJECTIVES The US National HIV/AIDS Strategy identifies retention in care as an important quality performance measure. There is no gold standard to measure retention in care. This study is the first to compare different measures of retention, using a large geographically diverse sample. DESIGN A prospective cohort of 17,425 HIV-infected adults enrolled in care at 12 US HIV clinics between 200...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1525-4135
DOI: 10.1097/qai.0b013e318258c696