Table 1.
Descriptions of databases used for cohort validation.
Figure 1.
Flow diagram of the STOP HIV/AIDS cohort selection process.
CDC: BC Centre for Disease Control; MoH: BC Ministry of Health Datasets (including Discharge Abstract Database, Medical Services Plan and PharmaNet databases); CfE: BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. † identified with at least one record of the following: HIV positive test (CDC), HIV-related hospitalization or physician claim (MoH), pVL test, CD4 test, AIDS-defining illness or HAART dispensation (CfE). * Cases with one or more undetectable pVL tests, with no other HIV-related records. ** Identified with at least one HIV-related MoH record but no other HIV-related records in the CDC or CfE databases; *** Identified with confirmed positive HIV test, a pVL test with detectable viral load or antiretroviral dispensation.
Table 2.
Comparison of case-finding algorithms.
Table 3.
Comparison of demographics and health service utilization across categories of cases considered for inclusion into the STOP HIV/AIDS cohort.
Figure 2.
Mortality rates across categories of cases considered for inclusion into the STOP HIV/AIDS cohort.
MoH: BC Ministry of Health; CfE: BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS; CDC: BC Centre for Disease Control. * Identified with confirmed positive HIV test, a pVL test with detectable viral load or antiretroviral dispensation.