Application and Validation of Case-Finding Algorithms for Identifying Individuals with Human Immunodeficiency Virus from Administrative Data in British Columbia, Canada

Bohdan Nosyk; Guillaume Colley; Benita Yip; Keith Chan; Katherine Heath; Viviane D. Lima; Mark Gilbert; Robert S. Hogg; P. Richard Harrigan; Julio S. G. Montaner

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0054416

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Application and Validation of Case-Finding Algorithms for Identifying Individuals with Human Immunodeficiency Virus from Administrative Data in British Columbia, Canada

Bohdan Nosyk,

Affiliation BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Guillaume Colley,

Affiliation BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Benita Yip,

Affiliation BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Keith Chan,

Affiliation BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Katherine Heath,

Affiliation BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Viviane D. Lima,

Affiliations BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Division of AIDS, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Mark Gilbert,

Affiliations Clinical Prevention Services, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Robert S. Hogg,

Affiliations BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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P. Richard Harrigan,

Affiliations BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Division of AIDS, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Julio S. G. Montaner, on behalf of the STOP HIV/AIDS Study Group

* E-mail: jmontaner@cfenet.ubc.ca

Membership of the STOP HIV/AIDS Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Affiliations BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Division of AIDS, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Application and Validation of Case-Finding Algorithms for Identifying Individuals with Human Immunodeficiency Virus from Administrative Data in British Columbia, Canada

Bohdan Nosyk,
Guillaume Colley,
Benita Yip,
Keith Chan,
Katherine Heath,
Viviane D. Lima,
Mark Gilbert,
Robert S. Hogg,
P. Richard Harrigan,
Julio S. G. Montaner

Published: January 28, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054416

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