Publications by authors named "Elaha Sarwar"
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- The Public Health Agency of Canada faced a challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic in managing numerous investigational therapeutics and needed an effective way to prioritize their assessment.
- They created the Rapid Scoring Tool (RST) through a literature search and validation process, aiming to streamline the review of potential treatments based on specific criteria.
- The RST, which utilizes a unique scoring system from -10 to 10, effectively ranks therapeutics and can adapt to evolving information, indicating its potential for broader applications in future health crises.
Objective: Although international guidelines recommend initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) when a patient's CD4 cell count is ≤350 cells/μL, most patients in resource-limited settings present with much lower CD4 cell counts. The lowest level that their CD4 cell count reaches, the nadir, may have long-term consequences in terms of mortality. We examined this health state in a large cohort of HIV+ patients in Uganda.
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