Journal
BIOMETRICS
Volume 65, Issue 1, Pages 301-306Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01043.x
Keywords
Covariates; Double sampling; Dropouts; HIV; Loss to follow-up; PEPFAR; Potential outcomes; Survival
Funding
- HIV/AIDS (AMPATH)
- NIH [AI0669911]
- NIDA [R01 DA023879]
- National Eye Institute [EY 07127]
- Clinical Trials Training Program in Vision Research
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In 2007, there were 33.2 million people around the world living with HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS/WHO, 2007). In May 2003, the U. S. President announced a global program, known as the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), to address this epidemic. We seek to estimate patient mortality in PEPFAR in an effort to monitor and evaluate this program. This effort, however, is hampered by loss to follow-up that occurs at very high rates. As a consequence, standard survival data and analysis on observed nondropout data are generally biased, and provide no objective evidence to correct the potential bias. In this article, we apply double-sampling designs and methodology to PEPFAR data, and we obtain substantially different and more plausible estimates compared with standard methods (1-year mortality estimate of 9.6% compared to 1.7%). The results indicate that a double-sampling design is critical in providing objective evidence of possible nonignorable dropout and, thus, in obtaining accurate data in PEPFAR. Moreover, we show the need for appropriate analysis methods coupled with double-sampling designs.
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