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Cohort Profile: Standardized Management of Antiretroviral Therapy Cohort (MASTER Cohort)

2015; Oxford University Press; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/ije/dyv192

1464-3685

Carlo Torti, Elena Raffetti, Francesco Donato, Francesco Castelli, Paolo Maggi, Gioacchino Angarano, Francesco Mazzotta, Andrea Gori, Laura Sighinolfi, Angelo Pan, Roberto Cauda, Alfredo Scalzini, Eugenia Quirós-Roldán, Paola Nasta, Giampietro Gregis, Simone Vasilij Benatti, Simona Digiambenedetto, Nicoletta Ladisa, Mariarosaria Giralda, Annalisa Saracino, Filippo Castelnuovo, Massimo Di Pietro, Sergio Lo Caputo, Giuseppe Lapadula, Silvia Costarelli, Silvia Lorenzotti, Nicola Mazzini, Giuseppe Paraninfo, Salvatore Casari, Emanuele Focà, Chiara Pezzoli, Massimiliano Fabbiani, Laura Monno, Piera Pierotti, Claudio Blé, Sebastiano Leone, Maria Concetta Postorino, Chiara Fornabaio, Fabio Zacchi, Alessia Zoncada, Giampiero Carosi,

HIV-related health complications and treatments

What is MASTER?What was the rationale for setting up the cohort?The Italian MASTER (MAnagement Standardizzato di TErapia antiRetrovirale, standardized management of antiretroviral therapy) cohort is a hospital-based multicentre, open, dynamic HIV cohort established in the mid 1990s, with retrospective patient enrolment from 1986 to 1997 and subsequent prospective recruitment.At that time, no institutional system of surveillance of HIV infection was available, apart from the registration of AIDS cases.Accurate, precise and up-to-date data on HIV infection were therefore needed.To this end, we