A clinician-nurse model to reduce early mortality and increase clinic retention among high-risk HIV-infected patients initiating combination antiretroviral treatment

Table 3 Adjusted Hazard Ratios (HR)* and 95% Confidence Intervals (CI) of the effect of High Risk Express Care (HREC) vs. Routine Care on: a) Death, b) Lost to Follow-up (LTFU), and c) Death or LTFU (combined endpoint) following cART initiation

Effect of high risk express care on eligible patients	Death	Loss to follow-up	Death or
			Loss to follow-up
	N events: 426	N events: 1299	N events: 1725
Unadjusted HR	0.60 (0.48-0.74)	0.63 (0.56-0.71)	0.63 (0.58-0.69)
(95% CI)	Robust Std. Err.: 0.06	Robust Std. Err.: 0.04	Robust Std. Err.: 0.03
Adjusted HR	0.59 (0.45-0.77)	0.62 (0.55-0.70)	0.62 (0.57-0.67)
(95% CI)	Robust Std. Err.: 0.08	Robust Std. Err.: 0.04	Robust Std. Err: 0.03

*Adjusted using propensity scores for clinic, the use of cotrimoxazole or dapsone, CD4 count closest to cART initiation, receiving treatment for tuberculosis,, gender, age, clinic type (Referral Hospital, Sub-District and District Hospitals, and Rural Health Centres), and travel time to clinic.