A new method to correct mortality rate biases in HIV treatment programs
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 18:30
in Health & Medicine
HIV treatment programs in sub-Saharan Africa should routinely report mortality rates among patients who remain in the programs and those patients lost to follow-up, according to a study by Matthias Egger and colleagues from the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS in East Africa, Western Africa, and Southern Africa that is published in this week's PLoS Medicine.
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