Browsing by Subject "Preventive Medicine"

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    Treatment guidelines and early loss from care for people living with HIV in Cape Town, South Africa: A retrospective cohort study
    (2017) Katz, Ingrid T; Kaplan, Richard; Fitzmaurice, Garrett; Leone, Dominick; Bangsberg, David R; Bekker, Linda‐Gail; Orrell, Catherine
    South Africa has undergone multiple expansions in antiretroviral therapy (ART) eligibility from an initial CD4+ threshold of ≤200 cells/μl to providing ART for all people living with HIV (PLWH) as of September 2016. We evaluated the association of programmatic changes in ART eligibility with loss from care, both prior to ART initiation and within the first 16 weeks of starting treatment, during a period of programmatic expansion to ART treatment at CD4+ ≤ 350 cells/μl.
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    Understanding deprescribing of preventive cardiovascular medication: a Q-methodology study in patients
    (2017) Luymes, Clare H; Boelhouwer, Nelleke J; Poortvliet, Rosalinde K E; de Ruijter, Wouter; Reis, Ria; Numans, Mattijs E
    Patients with low cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk potentially use preventive cardiovascular medication unnecessarily. Our aim was to identify various viewpoints and beliefs concerning the preventive CVD management of patients with low CVD risk using preventive cardiovascular medication. Furthermore, we investigated whether certain viewpoints were related to a preference for deprescription or the continuation of preventive cardiovascular medication.