Bannick Marlena, Donnell Deborah, Hayes Richard, Laeyendecker Oliver, Gao Fei
Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Stat Med. 2024 Jul 30;43(17):3125-3139. doi: 10.1002/sim.10112. Epub 2024 May 27.
Incidence estimation of HIV infection can be performed using recent infection testing algorithm (RITA) results from a cross-sectional sample. This allows practitioners to understand population trends in the HIV epidemic without having to perform longitudinal follow-up on a cohort of individuals. The utility of the approach is limited by its precision, driven by the (low) sensitivity of the RITA at identifying recent infection. By utilizing results of previous HIV tests that individuals may have taken, we consider an enhanced RITA with increased sensitivity (and specificity). We use it to propose an enhanced estimator for incidence estimation. We prove the theoretical properties of the enhanced estimator and illustrate its numerical performance in simulation studies. We apply the estimator to data from a cluster-randomized trial to study the effect of community-level HIV interventions on HIV incidence. We demonstrate that the enhanced estimator provides a more precise estimate of HIV incidence compared to the standard estimator.
可使用横断面样本的近期感染检测算法(RITA)结果来估计HIV感染的发病率。这使从业者能够了解HIV流行的人群趋势,而无需对一组个体进行纵向随访。该方法的效用受到其精度的限制,这是由RITA在识别近期感染方面的(低)敏感性所驱动的。通过利用个体可能之前进行过的HIV检测结果,我们考虑一种具有更高敏感性(和特异性)的增强型RITA。我们用它来提出一种用于发病率估计的增强型估计器。我们证明了增强型估计器的理论性质,并在模拟研究中说明了其数值性能。我们将该估计器应用于一项整群随机试验的数据,以研究社区层面的HIV干预措施对HIV发病率的影响。我们证明,与标准估计器相比,增强型估计器能更精确地估计HIV发病率。