A state transition framework for patient-level modeling of engagement and retention in HIV care using longitudinal cohort data.

ABSTRACT: The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care cascade is a conceptual model used to outline the benchmarks that reflects effectiveness of HIV care in the whole HIV care continuum. The models can be used to identify barriers contributing to poor outcomes along each benchmark in the cascade such as disengagement from care or death. Recently, the HIV care cascade has been widely applied to monitor progress towards HIV prevention and care goals in an attempt to develop strategies to improve health outcomes along the care continuum. Yet, there are challenges in quantifying successes and gaps in HIV care using the cascade models that are partly due to the lack of analytic approaches. The availability of large cohort data presents an opportunity to develop a coherent statistical framework for analy

SUBMITTER: Lee H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5735035 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature