Availability of volunteer-led home-based care system and baseline factors as predictors of clinical outcomes in HIV-infected patients in rural Zambia.
Christopher B Estopinal; Janneke H van Dijk; Stanley Sitali; Hannah Stewart; Mario A Davidson; John Spurrier; Sten H Vermund · 2012 · PLoS ONE
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Abstract
Background We assessed the impact of home-based care (HBC) for HIV+ patients, comparing outcomes between two groups of Zambians receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) who lived in villages with and without HBC teams. Methods We conducted a retrospective cohort study using medical charts from Macha Mission Hospital, a hospital providing HIV care in Zambia's rural Southern Province. Date of birth, date of ART initiation, place of residence, sex, body mass index (BMI), CD4+ cell count, and hemoglobin (Hgb) were abstracted. Logistic regression was used to test our hypothesis that HBC was associate
Abstract by Christopher B Estopinal; Janneke H van Dijk; Stanley Sitali; Hannah Stewart; Mario A Davidson; John Spurrier; Sten H Vermund, PLoS ONE (2012) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: DOAJ · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0049564