Correcting mortality for loss to follow-up: a nomogram applied to antiretroviral treatment programmes in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Published in PLoS Med on January 18, 2011

Authors

Matthias Egger1, Ben D Spycher, John Sidle, Ralf Weigel, Elvin H Geng, Matthew P Fox, Patrick MacPhail, Gilles van Cutsem, Eugène Messou, Robin Wood, Denis Nash, Margaret Pascoe, Diana Dickinson, Jean-François Etard, James A McIntyre, Martin W G Brinkhof, IeDEA East Africa, West Africa and Southern Africa

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Switzerland. egger@ispm.unibe.ch

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