Reaching the Unreached: Providing Quality Care to HIV-Infected Children through Telemedicine—An Innovative Pilot Initiative from Maharashtra, India

Table 4

Table showing the distribution of certain outcomes according to the demographics and characteristics of centers in 1735 children in the pre-ART group, Maharashtra.

		Alive			Dead			Lost to follow-up
		Nonlinked	Linked (irregular)	Linked (regular)	Nonlinked	Linked (irregular)	Linked (regular)	Nonlinked	Linked (irregular)	Linked (regular)
	1735	855	428	452	855	428	452	855	428	452
All		602 (70)	325 (76)	359 (79)	38 (4)	16 (4)	16 (4)	65 (8)	20 (5)	25 (6)
Age (years)
0-4.9	244	75/113 (67)	45/69 (65)	47/62 (76)	4/113 (4)	4/69 (6)	1/62 (2)	8/113 (7)	3/69 (4)	2/62 (3)
5-9.9	581	212/290 (73)	115/137 (84)	132/154 (86)	10/290 (3)	3/137 (2)	4/154 (3)	20/290 (7)	5/137 (4)	8/154 (5)
10-14.9	582	210/288 (73)	111/141 (79)	119/153 (78)	15/288 (5)	3/141 (2)	5/153 (3)	20/288 (7)	8/141 (6)	9/153 (6)
15-18	328	105/164 (64)	54/81 (67)	61/83 (73)	9/164 (5)	6/81 (7)	6/83 (7)	17/164 (10)	4/81 (5)	6/83 (7)
Sex
Male	965	343/481 (71)	178/242 (74)	188/242 (78)	22/481 (5)	10/242 (4)	9/242 (4)	37/481 (8)	7/242 (3)	18/242 (7)
Female	770	259/374 (69)	147/186 (79)	171/210 (81)	16/374 (4)	6/186 (3)	7/210 (3)	28/374 (7)	13/186 (7)	7/210 (3)
Type of centers
Civil hospital	659	54/65 (83)	155/199 (78)	311/395 (79)	0/65 (0)	9/199 (5)	16/395 (4)	0/65 (0)	14/199 (7)	23/395 (6)
Medical college	681	371/534 (69)	96/147 (65)	--	26/534 (5)	7/147 (5)	--	44/534 (8)	3/144 (2)	--
Subdistrict hospital	271	111/132 (84)	74/82 (90)	48/57 (84)	5/132 (4)	0/82 (0)	0/57 (0)	5/132 (4)	3/82 (4)	2/57 (4)
Municipal corporation hospital	124	66/124 (53)	--	--	7/124 (6)	--	--	16/124 (13)	--	--
Education
Postgraduate	1465	454/672 (68)	260/341 (76)	359/452 (79)	34/672 (5)	14/341 (4)	16/452 (4)	53/672 (8)	20/341 (6)	25/452 (6)
Undergraduate	270	148/183 (81)	65/87 (75)	--	4/183 (2)	2/87 (2)	--	12/183 (7)	0/87 (0)	--
Pediatrician
Yes	607	215/306 (70)	132/173 (76)	105/128 (82)	21/306 (7)	11/173 (6)	6/128 (5)	14/306 (5)	10/173 (6)	5/128 (4)
No	1128	387/549 (70)	193/255 (76)	254/324 (78)	17/549 (3)	5/255 (2)	10/324 (3)	51/549 (9)	10/255 (4)	20/324 (6)

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