Missed diagnostic opportunities within South Africa's early infant diagnosis program, 2010-2015.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Samples submitted for HIV PCR testing that fail to yield a positive or negative result represent missed diagnostic opportunities. We describe HIV PCR test rejections and indeterminate results, and the associated delay in diagnosis, within South Africa's early infant diagnosis (EID) program from 2010 to 2015.

Methods

HIV PCR test data from January 2010 to December 2015 were extracted from the National Health Laboratory Service Corporate Data Warehouse, a central data repository of all registered test-sets within the public health sector in South Africa, by laboratory number, result, date, facility, and testing laboratory. Samples that failed to yield either a positive or negative result were categorized according to the rejection code on the laboratory information

SUBMITTER: Haeri Mazanderani A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5426641 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature