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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2014 Apr 15;65(5):e179–e186. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000000075

Table 1.

Interpretation of events in the mathematical model.

Event Interpretation
Official transfer out, recorded Patient transfers to another clinic, and transfer is recorded in the health passport and the clinic records.
Official transfer out, unrecorded Patient transfers to another clinic, and transfer is recorded in patient's health passport but not in the clinic records.
Self-transfer out Patient transfers to another clinic without informing the original clinic.
Irregular ART Patient takes ART (with or without gaps) but does not receive antiretroviral drugs from official clinics.
ART discontinuation, recorded Patient discontinues ART by clinician's recommendation, and this is recorded in the clinic's records.
ART discontinuation, unrecorded Patient discontinues ART without informing the clinic.
Death, recorded Patient dies and the clinic is informed about the death.
Death, unrecorded Patient dies, but the clinic is not informed about the death.

The events listed in this table correspond to the events presented in Figure 1. See Table S1 (Supplemental Digital Content) for the corresponding list of events in the dataset.