Treating loss-to-follow-up as a missing data problem: a case study using a longitudinal cohort of HIV-infected patients in Haiti

• Main Authors: Deanna P. Jannat-Khah (Author), Michelle Unterbrink (Author), Margaret McNairy (Author), Samuel Pierre (Author), Dan W. Fitzgerald (Author), Jean Pape (Author), Arthur Evans (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background HIV programs are often assessed by the proportion of patients who are alive and retained in care; however some patients are categorized as lost to follow-up (LTF) and have unknown vital status. LTF is not an outcome but a mixed category of patients who have undocumented death, tr...