Data for: "Anemia, Blood Transfusion Requirements and Mortality Risk in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Adults Requiring Acute Medical Admission to Hospital in South Africa"

Kerkhoff, AD, Lawn, S, Schutz, C, Burton, R, Boulle, A, Cobelens, FJ and Meintjes, G (2015). Data for: "Anemia, Blood Transfusion Requirements and Mortality Risk in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Adults Requiring Acute Medical Admission to Hospital in South Africa". [Dataset]. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofv173

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Aggregated data supporting a publication on Anemia, blood transfusion requirements and mortality risk in HIV-infected adults requiring acute medical admission to hospital in South Africa. Data is made available as a supplement to the paper.

Keywords

Africa, AIDS, Anemia, Blood transfusion, HIV, Hospitalized, Mortality

Item Type	Dataset
Description of data capture	Unselected consecutive HIV-infected adults requiring acute medical admission to a Cape Town township district hospital were recruited. Admission hemoglobin concentrations were used to classify anemia severity according to World Health Organization/AIDS Clinical Trials Group criteria. Vital status was determined at 90 days, and Cox regression analyses were used to determine independent predictors of mortality.
Capture method	Experiment: Field Intervention
Date	12 November 2015
Geographical area covered (offline during plugin upgrade)	North Latitude East Longitude South Latitude West Longitude -33.9109 18.5472 -34.1238 18.3188
Language(s) of written materials	English
Creator(s)	Kerkhoff, AD, Lawn, S, Schutz, C, Burton, R, Boulle, A, Cobelens, FJ and Meintjes, G
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases > Dept of Clinical Research
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Funders	Project Funder Grant Number Funder URI UNSPECIFIED Wellcome Trust UNSPECIFIED http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010269 UNSPECIFIED Department for International Development, UK Government UNSPECIFIED http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002992 UNSPECIFIED Medical Research Council UNSPECIFIED http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000265
Date Deposited	12 Jan 2016 11:26
Last Modified	24 Mar 2021 16:04
Publisher	Oxford University Press