Imputing HIV treatment start dates from routine laboratory data in South Africa: a validation study
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- 作者：Mhairi Maskew ; Jacob Bor ; Cheryl Hendrickson…
- 关键词：Health systems ; Monitoring and evaluation ; Resource ; limited settings ; Missing data ; Imputation ; Validation ; Laboratory ; HIV/AIDS ; Antiretroviral therapy ; South Africa ; Chronic disease management
- 刊名：BMC Health Services Research
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：892KB
- 刊物主题：Public Health; Health Administration; Health Informatics; Nursing Research;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1472-6963
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundPoor clinical record keeping hinders health systems monitoring and patient care in many low resource settings. We develop and validate a novel method to impute dates of antiretroviral treatment (ART) initiation from routine laboratory data in South Africa’s public sector HIV program. This method will enable monitoring of the national ART program using real-time laboratory data, avoiding the error potential of chart review.