AIDS in Africa - Survival according to AIDS-defining illness

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 583-586

  Post, F A ^a   Badri, M ^a   Wood, R ^a   Maartens, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CODING; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUTH AFRICA; STAGING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TIME; TUBERCULOSIS; WASTING SYNDROME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIDS DEMENTIA COMPLEX; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HIV WASTING SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034905964     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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