Misclassification of Loss to Care Among Persons with HIV: Improved Capture of Silent Transfers through Surveillance Linkage using Statewide Mandatorily Reported Laboratory Measures.
Daniel E SackMeredith BrantleyMelanie RatliffSamantha MathiesonMegan TurnerApril C PettitTimothy R SterlingPeter F RebeiroPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2023)
HIV-positive individuals lost to follow-up from particular clinics may not be lost to care (LTC). After linking Vanderbilt's Comprehensive Care Clinic cohort to Tennessee's statewide HIV surveillance database, LTC decreased from 48.4% to 35.0% at 10 years. Routine surveillance-linkage by domestic HIV clinics would improve LTC and retention measure accuracy.