Updating vital status by tracking in the community among patients with epidemic Kaposi sarcoma who are lost to follow-up in sub-Saharan Africa

Table 3 Determinants of failure to find patients with Kaposi sarcoma who were lost to follow-up in four countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Sample is limited to patients who gave consent for tracking and who had sufficient information to attempt physical tracking (n = 354)

	Unadjusted		Adjusted^a
	Risk Ratio (95% CI)	P value	Risk Ratio (95% CI)	P value
Age at last visit, per 1 year increase	0.98 (0.95–1.01)	0.21	1.0 (0.97–1.03)	0.87
Sex
Women	Ref.		Ref.
Men	0.72 (0.42–1.23)	0.23	0. 59 (0.35–1.01)	0.055
Duration of being lost at database closure, per 1 month increase	1.03 (1.02–1.05)	<0.001	0.99 (0.98–1.01)	0.48
Duration since KS diagnosis at last visit, per 1 month increase	0.96 (0.90–1.02)	0.19	0.94 (0.89–1.00)	0.065
ART in use at last visit
Not on ART	Ref.		Ref.
On ART	0.40 (0.24–0.68)	0.001	0.68 (0.40–1.14)	0.144
Site
AMPATH-Kenya	Ref.		Ref.
ISS-Mbarara	8.5 (3.8–19.1)	<0.001	9.7 (4.2–22.2)	<0.001
Lighthouse-Malawi	10.5 (4.5–24.5)	<0.001	12.1 (4.9–29.9)	<0.001
UATH & NHA-Nigeria	6.6 (2.3–19.3)	<0.001	8.7 (2.8–26.6)	<0.001

ART denotes antiretroviral therapy; AMPATH denotes Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare in western Kenya; ISS denotes Immune Suppression Syndrome Clinic in Mbarara, Uganda; UATH denotes University of Abuja Teaching Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria; and NHA denotes National Hospital Abuja in Abuja, Nigeria
^a Adjusted risk ratios were derived using a generalized linear model with a binomial outcome and log link function. All variables are adjusted for all variables in the column

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