Challenges to re-enrolling perinatally HIV-infected and HIV-exposed but uninfected children into a prospective cohort study: Strategies for locating and recruiting hard-to-reach families

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 338-347

  Freedman, Darcy ^a,b   Koenig, Linda J ^a   Wiener, Jeffrey ^a   Abrams, Elaine J ^c,d   Carter, Rosalind J ^e   Tepper, Vicki ^f   Palumbo, Paul ^g   Nesheim, Steven ^h   Bulterys, Marc ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARLEM HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^e Medical and Health Research Association   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^h EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Enrolment rate; HIV status

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; PEDIATRICS; PERINATAL INFECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY; FEMALE; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; MOTHERS; PATIENT SELECTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLE SIZE; SIBLINGS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745113508     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: 13653016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2006.00742.x     Document Type: Article

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