Identifying causes of loss to follow up in newly diagnosed HIV-infected patients
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Methods We retrospectively reviewed the clinical charts of the adult patients (P) who consulted for the first time in the Infectious Disease Clinic of the university associated hospital at Buenos Aires, Argentina, between June 1st 2005 and May 31st 2008. We identified between the P who were newly diagnosed with HIV infection, those who attended the clinic only once; we considered lose to follow up those P who never come back in a year time. We exclude those P who attended other clinic before coming to ours. We contacted via telephone those P who had only one visit and never came back, to know the reason why they never came back to the clinic; we compared the age, gender, and socioeconomic characteristics between the group of patient who continued medical care (those who are currently attending our clinic and were diagnosed in the same period) and those who lost to follow up. We considered the first visit, the one in which the P is informed about his HIV seropositive condition.
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