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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 3.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Infect Dis. 2009 Jan 15;48(2):248–256. doi: 10.1086/595705

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Short-term (1 year) and long-term vital status of 567 HIV-infected patients establishing initial outpatient HIV care at the UAB 1917 HIV/AIDS Clinic between 1 January 2000 – 31 December 2005. Among the 543 patients who were living one year after their initial attended visit, observed mortality was 2.3 and 1.0 per 100 patient-years follow-up for those with and without a missed visit in the first year, respectively (P=0.02). Only missed visits that patients did not call ahead to notify the clinic that they would not attend their appointment were included in this measure (“no show” visits). Appointments cancelled by a patient in advance, those scheduled while a patient was hospitalized, and those cancelled by the clinic are not included in the missed visit measure. Vital status was determined by query of the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) as of 1 August 2007.