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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 17.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Care. 2015 Aug 17;27(10):1275–1278. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2015.1050985

Table 1.

Linkage and Retention in Care from Patient File Data

Files with documented CD4 values 34/39 (87.2%)*
CD4 values (cells/mm3) Mean 226
Median 156.5
Range 2 – 772
Proportion initiating ART, among those eligible* 22/24 (91.6%)**
Days to ART initiation from day CD4 results were received (days) Mean 36.14
Median 19
Range 0 – 151
Pre-ART patients retained 2/7 (28.6%)***
ART patients retained 18/23 (78.3%)****
ART patients initiating over 6 months prior to extraction with HIV viral load test results 3/8 (37.5%)
*

Three patient files had no reported CD4 count or any other documentation so we could not determine if they were pre-ART or ART patients. Two files were missing CD4 count values, but these patients had been assigned to pre-ART register in the notes

**

We excluded three ART-eligible patients who were documented as transferred to another clinic for ART initiation or who had moved and one patient who had died.

***

We excluded one pre-ART patient who had transferred out of the clinic.

****

We excluded two ART patients who had transferred out of the clinic and one who had died