Factors associated with loss from care, estimated from Cox proportional hazards models, based on data in clinic registers (uncorrected) and corrected for the outcomes among patients who were successfully traced
| Characteristics | Uncorrected HR* (95% CI) | P values | Corrected HR* (95% CI) | P values |
| Sociodemographic | ||||
| Sex | 0.38 | 0.07 | ||
| Female | 1 | |||
| Male | 1.17 (0.82 to 1.68) | 1.39 (0.97 to 1.99) | ||
| Age per 10 years | 0.007 | 0.01 | ||
| 0.79 (0.66 to 0.94) | 0.71 (0.54 to 0.93) | |||
| Location | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||
| Urban | 1 | 1 | ||
| Rural | 1.95 (1.68 to 2.27) | 2.02 (1.49 to 2.73) | ||
| Clinical† | ||||
| CD4 count (per 100 cells) | 0.22 | 0.41 | ||
| 1.04 (0.98 to 1.10) | 1.05 (0.93 to 1.20) | |||
| Weight per 10 kg‡ | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||
| Linear term | 0.94 (0.80 to 1.11) | 1.03 (0.74 to 1.42) | ||
| Quadratic term | 1.03 (1.02 to 1.04) | 0.94 (0.90 to 0.98) |
↵*Sociodemographic variables adjusted for all sociodemographic variables in the table. Clinical variables adjusted for all variables in the table.
†Analysis of associations with clinical variables restricted to urban patients.
‡Weight is scaled (divided by 10) and centred on mean weight in the analysis.