Strategies to reengage patients lost to follow up in HIV care in high income countries, a scoping review

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Table 4 Assessment methods and results of the activities reported to reengage patients to HIV care

Reengagement activities and outcomes	Measurement (median)	Reference
Patients’ tracing activities and status confirmation
In HIV care/misclassified as LTFU	11–61% (33%)	[23, 25, 26, 28, 31, 32, 34, 36, 46,47,48, 50]
Transferred to another clinic/care	2–46% (12%)	[24, 30, 34, 36, 40, 41, 48, 49]
Deceased	0.6–13% (6%)	[23, 24, 26, 28, 30, 31, 34, 36, 40, 41, 48,49,50]
Migrated/changed city	5–51% (12%)	[25, 26, 30, 31, 40, 41, 48, 49]
Incarcerated/other outcomes	1–9% (4,5%)	[24, 30, 32, 40]
Not located/unreached/not contacted	3–81% (29%)	[24,25,26, 28, 31, 32, 34, 36, 40,41,42, 47,48,49]
Contacted	19–98% (47%)	[25, 28, 30, 32, 33, 42, 46,47,48,49,50]
Reengagement outcomes
Returned/linked to care/restarted treatment	7–86% (56%)	[23,24,25,26, 28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36, 39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50]
Refused linkage to care	3–58% (12%)	[26, 30,31,32, 36, 41, 47,48,49,50]
Follow-up outcomes
Viral suppression at 6 months	34–90% (66%)	[29, 34, 41, 46]
Viral suppression at 12 months or more	30–67% (58%)	[23, 29, 33, 34, 39, 40, 47]
Retained within 1–6 months	28–82% (55%)	[26, 30, 39]
Retained within 1 a year	50–90% (56%)	[23, 24, 39, 43, 47]
2 visits/laboratory tests	22–72% (50%)	[38, 49]

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