The Causal Effect of Tracing by Peer Health Workers on Return to Clinic Among Patients Who Were Lost to Follow-up From Antiretroviral Therapy in Eastern Africa: A “Natural Experiment” Arising From Surveillance of Lost Patients-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Causal Effect of Tracing by Peer Health Workers on Return to Clinic Among Patients Who Were Lost to Follow-up From Antiretroviral Therapy in Eastern Africa: A “Natural Experiment” Arising From Surveillance of Lost Patients

Published:2017-03-17 Issue:11 Volume:64 Page:1547-1554
ISSN:1058-4838
Container-title:Clinical Infectious Diseases
language:en
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Author:

Bershetyn Anna¹,Odeny Thomas A.²,Lyamuya Rita³,Nakiwogga-Muwanga Alice⁴,Diero Lameck⁵,Bwana Mwebesa⁶⁷,Braitstein Paula⁵,Somi Geoffrey³,Kambugu Andrew⁴,Bukusi Elizabeth²,Hartogensis Wendy⁸,Glidden David V.⁶,Wools-Kaloustian Kara⁹,Yiannoutsos Constantin¹⁰,Martin Jeffrey⁶⁸,Geng Elvin H.⁸,

Affiliation:

1. Institute for Disease Modeling, Bellevue, Washington;

2. Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi;

3. National AIDS Control Program, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania;

4. Infectious Diseases Institute, Kampala, Uganda;

5. United States Agency for International Development-Academic Partnership Program, Eldoret, Kenya;

6. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco;

7. Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda;

8. Division of HIV/AIDS, Department of Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, California;

9. Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, and

10. Department of Biostatistics, Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, Indianapolis

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Microbiology (medical)

Link

http://academic.oup.com/cid/article-pdf/64/11/1547/24254596/cix191.pdf

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