Development and validation of a composite programmatic assessment tool for HIV therapy.

We developed and validated a new and simple metric, the Programmatic Compliance Score (PCS), based on the IAS-USA antiretroviral therapy management guidelines for HIV-infected adults, as a predictor of all-cause mortality, at a program-wide level. We hypothesized that non-compliance would be associa...

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Main Authors: Viviane D Lima, Adrian Le, Bohdan Nosyk, Rolando Barrios, Benita Yip, Robert S Hogg, P Richard Harrigan, Julio S G Montaner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3501505?pdf=render