Table 1.
POCa testing program and site characteristics by program type.
| Site characteristics | Program typeb | |||
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STI,c n | COVID-19, n | ||
| Management | 31 | 105 | ||
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Jurisdictional government | 7 | 37 | |
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Community controlled | 24 | 68 | |
| Geographic location (ABSd) | ||||
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Very remote and remote | 27 | 81 | |
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Regional | 4 | 24 | |
| Jurisdiction | ||||
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Queensland | 6 | 20 | |
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Northern Territory | 6 | 36 | |
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South Australia | 4 | 10 | |
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Western Australia | 15 | 22 | |
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New South Wales | 0 | 9 | |
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Victoria | 0 | 8 | |
| PMSe type | ||||
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Communicare | 21 | 58 | |
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MMExf | 6 | 9 | |
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BPg | 3 | 9 | |
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MD-3h | 1 | 5 | |
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Others |
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21 | |
| Test result recipients | ||||
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POC2Doc | 31 | 105 | |
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Local PMS | 25 | 77 | |
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Centralized results repositoryi | 2 | 28 | |
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Jurisdictional DoHj | 0 | 105 | |
aPOC: point-of-care.
bSTI program: January 2016 to April 2020; COVID program: May 2020 to August 2022 (includes 60 sites also doing STI POC testing).
cSTI: sexually transmissible infection.
dABS: Australian Bureau of Statistics.
ePMS: patient management system.
fMMEx: medical message exchange.
gBP: best practice.
hMD: medical director.
iLocal, regional, or jurisdictional clinical results repository.
jDoH: department of health.