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荷兰HIV感染流行的模拟:多参数证据综合方法

Modeling of the HIV infection epidemic in the Netherlands: A multi-parameter evidence synthesis approach

Stefano Conti, Anne M. Presanis, Maaike G. van Veen, Maria Xiridou, Martin C. Donoghoe, Annemarie Rinder Stengaard, Daniela De Angelis

摘要:

多参数证据综合(MPES)作为一个连贯和灵活的分析框架,正在受到流行病学界越来越多的关注,以适应不同的证据,为疾病的发病率和流行率估计提供信息。MPES是英国卫生保护局每年对艾滋病毒流行情况进行国家评估时采用的统计方法学,并被世界卫生组织和联合国艾滋病规划署确认为根据监测数据估计成人艾滋病毒流行率的宝贵技术。本文介绍了利用贝叶斯MPES方法在荷兰的艾滋病毒流行率模型在2007年底的结果,使用一系列的现场数据从不同的研究设计对各种人群的风险亚组和不同程度的区域覆盖。另外还纳入了辅助数据和专家意见,以解决因证据有偏见、不足或不一致而产生的问题。该案例研究证明了MPES自然整合和批判性地调和不同和异质证据来源的能力,同时产生用于支持公共卫生决策的可靠的艾滋病毒流行率估计。

英文摘要:

Multi-parameter evidence synthesis (MPES) is receiving growing attention from the epidemiological community as a coherent and flexible analytical framework to accommodate a disparate body of evidence available to inform disease incidence and prevalence estimation. MPES is the statistical methodology adopted by the Health Protection Agency in the UK for its annual national assessment of the HIV epidemic, and is acknowledged by the World Health Organization and UNAIDS as a valuable technique for the estimation of adult HIV prevalence from surveillance data. This paper describes the results of utilizing a Bayesian MPES approach to model HIV prevalence in the Netherlands at the end of 2007, using an array of field data from different study designs on various population risk subgroups and with a varying degree of regional coverage. Auxiliary data and expert opinion were additionally incorporated to resolve issues arising from biased, insufficient or inconsistent evidence. This case study offers a demonstration of the ability of MPES to naturally integrate and critically reconcile disparate and heterogeneous sources of evidence, while producing reliable estimates of HIV prevalence used to support public health decision-making.

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