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Correcting mortality estimates among children and youth on antiretroviral therapy in southern Africa: A comparative analysis between a multi-country tracing study and linkage to a health information exchange.
| العنوان: | Correcting mortality estimates among children and youth on antiretroviral therapy in southern Africa: A comparative analysis between a multi-country tracing study and linkage to a health information exchange. |
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| المؤلفون: | Nyakato P; Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.; Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa., Schomaker M; Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany., Boulle A; Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.; Khayelitsha ART Programme, Cape Town, South Africa.; Western Cape Government: Health and Wellness, Cape Town, South Africa., Euvrard J; Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.; Khayelitsha ART Programme, Cape Town, South Africa., Wood R; Gugulethu HIV Programme and Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa., Eley B; Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa., Prozesky H; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Stellenbosch and Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa., Christ B; Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland., Anderegg N; Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.; Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland., Ayakaka I; SolidarMed, Maseru, Lesotho., Rafael I; SolidarMed, Pemba, Mozambique., Kunzekwenyika C; SolidarMed, Masvingo, Zimbabwe., Moore CB; Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia., van Lettow M; Dignitas International, Zomba, Malawi.; Madiro, Toronto, Canada.; Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada., Chimbetete C; Newlands Clinic, Harare, Zimbabwe., Mbewe S; Lighthouse Trust Clinic, Lilongwe, Malawi., Ballif M; Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.; Department of Infectious Diseases, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland., Egger M; Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland., Yiannoutsos CT; R.M Fairbanks, School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA., Cornell M; Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa., Davies MA; Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.; Western Cape Government: Health and Wellness, Cape Town, South Africa. |
| المصدر: | Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH [Trop Med Int Health] 2024 Aug; Vol. 29 (8), pp. 739-751. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 04. |
| نوع المنشور: | Journal Article; Comparative Study |
| اللغة: | English |
| بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: Blackwell Scientific Publications Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9610576 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1365-3156 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 13602276 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Trop Med Int Health Subsets: MEDLINE |
| أسماء مطبوعة: | Publication: Oxford : Blackwell Scientific Publications Original Publication: Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science Ltd, c1996- |
| مواضيع طبية MeSH: | HIV Infections*/drug therapy , HIV Infections*/mortality , Lost to Follow-Up*, Humans ; Adolescent ; Child ; Young Adult ; Africa, Southern/epidemiology ; Male ; Female ; Child, Preschool ; Infant ; Anti-HIV Agents/therapeutic use ; Adult |
| مستخلص: | Objectives: The objective of this study is to assess the outcomes of children, adolescents and young adults with HIV reported as lost to follow-up, correct mortality estimates for children, adolescents and young adults with HIV for unascertained outcomes in those loss to follow-up (LTFU) based on tracing and linkage data separately using data from the International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS in Southern Africa. Methods: We included data from two different populations of children, adolescents and young adults with HIV; (1) clinical data from children, adolescents and young adults with HIV aged ≤24 years from Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe; (2) clinical data from children, adolescents and young adults with HIV aged ≤14 years from the Western Cape (WC) in South Africa. Outcomes of patients lost to follow-up were available from (1) a tracing study and (2) linkage to a health information exchange. For both populations, we compared six methods for correcting mortality estimates for all children, adolescents and young adults with HIV. Results: We found substantial variations of mortality estimates among children, adolescents and young adults with HIV reported as lost to follow-up versus those retained in care. Ascertained mortality was higher among lost and traceable children, adolescents and young adults with HIV and lower among lost and linkable than those retained in care (mortality: 13.4% [traced] vs. 12.6% [retained-other Southern Africa countries]; 3.4% [linked] vs. 9.4% [retained-WC]). A high proportion of lost to follow-up children, adolescents and young adults with HIV had self-transferred (21.0% and 47.0%) in the traced and linked samples, respectively. The uncorrected method of non-informative censoring yielded the lowest mortality estimates among all methods for both tracing (6.0%) and linkage (4.0%) approaches at 2 years from ART start. Among corrected methods using ascertained data, multiple imputation, incorporating ascertained data (MI(asc.)) and inverse probability weighting with logistic weights were most robust for the tracing approach. In contrast, for the linkage approach, MI(asc.) was the most robust. Conclusions: Our findings emphasise that lost to follow-up is non-ignorable and both tracing and linkage improved outcome ascertainment: tracing identified substantial mortality in those reported as lost to follow-up, whereas linkage did not identify out-of-facility deaths, but showed that a large proportion of those reported as lost to follow-up were self-transfers. (© 2024 The Author(s). Tropical Medicine & International Health published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.) |
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| معلومات مُعتمدة: | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD); U01AI069924 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID); 203135/Z/16/Z Wellcome Center for Infectious Diseases Research Institute (CIDRI)-Africa |
| فهرسة مساهمة: | Keywords: children and youth; linkage; loss to follow‐up; mortality; self‐transfer; tracing |
| المشرفين على المادة: | 0 (Anti-HIV Agents) |
| تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20240704 Date Completed: 20240801 Latest Revision: 20240801 |
| رمز التحديث: | 20240802 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/tmi.14030 |
| PMID: | 38961819 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
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| DOI: | 10.1111/tmi.14030 |