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- Title
Comparison of Methods to Correct Survival Estimates and Survival Regression Analysis on a Large HIV African Cohort.
- Authors
Henriques, Julie; Pujades-Rodriguez, Mar; McGuire, Megan; Szumilin, Elisabeth; Iwaz, Jean; Etard, Jean-François; Ecochard, René
- Abstract
Objective: The evaluation of HIV treatment programs is generally based on an estimation of survival among patients receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART). In large HIV programs, loss to follow-up (LFU) rates remain high despite active patient tracing, which is likely to bias survival estimates and survival regression analyses. Methods: We compared uncorrected survival estimates derived from routine program data with estimates obtained by applying six correction methods that use updated outcome data by a field survey targeting LFU patients in a rural HIV program in Malawi. These methods were based on double-sampling and differed according to the weights given to survival estimates in LFU and non-LFU subpopulations. We then proposed a correction of the survival regression analysis. Results: Among 6,727 HIV-infected adults receiving ART, 9% were LFU after one year. The uncorrected survival estimates from routine data were 91% in women and 84% in men. According to increasing sophistication of the correction methods, the corrected survival estimates ranged from 89% to 85% in women and 82% to 77% in men. The estimates derived from uncorrected regression analyses were highly biased for initial tuberculosis mortality ratios (RR; 95% CI: 1.07; 0.76-1.50 vs. 2.06 to 2.28 with different correction weights), Kaposi sarcoma diagnosis (2.11; 1.61-2.76 vs. 2.64 to 3.9), and year of ART initiation (1.40; 1.17-1.66 vs. 1.29 to 1.34). Conclusions: In HIV programs with high LFU rates, the use of correction methods based on non-exhaustive doublesampling data are necessary to minimise the bias in survival estimates and survival regressions.
- Subjects
MALAWI; HIV infections; THERAPEUTICS; REGRESSION analysis; COHORT analysis; ANTIRETROVIRAL agents; MEDICAL research
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2012, Vol 7, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0031706