ART.retention: A function that returns the percentage of clients who are on...

In wdelva/RSimpactHelp: Pre- and Post-simulation helper functions for RSimpact Cyan

Description

Definition. Percentage of adults and children with HIV alive and on ART 12, 24, 36 (etc.) months after initiating treatment among patients initiating ART during a specified time period.

Usage

ART.retention(datalist = datalist, agegroup = c(15, 150),
  ARTtimewindow = c(20, 34), retentiontimeMonths = 12, site = "All")

Arguments

datalist	The datalist that is produced by readthedata
ARTtimewindow	the window which treatment was started e.g timepoint = 30.
retentiontimeMonths	months from which retention is to be computed e.g 6 or more months after ART initiation
site	Select only the particular site from the study, if all use all sites.

Value

fraction of people who started treatment and are still on treatment after stated time

Examples

data(datalist)
ART.retention <- ART.retention(datalist = datalist, ARTtimewindow= c(30,31),
retentiontimeMonths = 6, site="All")
ART.retention

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