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. 2017 Jun 10;7(6):bmjopen-2016-015620. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015620

Table 1.

Routinely collected data for patients in the Right to Care Clinical HIV Cohort, South Africa

Data fields
Demographics Clinic ID, name, national ID number, contact details, gender, date of birth, employment status, alcohol use, smoking history, ethnicity, education level
Clinical visit data Date of visit (scheduled and actual), TB screening, urine analysis, vital signs, height, weight, description and duration of new symptoms, systems based clinical examination (eg, cardiology, neurology, respiratory, etc)
Laboratory results ART initiation and monitoring bloods including CD4 count, HIV viral load, full blood counts, liver function tests, renal function tests, TB microscopy and culture results, pap smear screening results, lactate levels, glucose and lipid profiles
Medication history Date of start and stop of ART and non-ART medications, reasons for treatment discontinuation, self-reported treatment adherence
Clinical diagnoses Pregnancy, opportunistic infections including TB, hepatitis, PCP,
AIDS-related malignancies including Kaposi sarcoma and cervical cancer, ART toxicities including peripheral neuropathy, anaemia, hyperlactataemia/lactic acidosis, lipoatrophy

ART, antiretroviral therapy; TB, tuberculosis; PCP pneumocystis pneumonia.