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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jun 5.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Feb 8;76(3):e671–e680. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciac609

Table 5.

Median Time to Informing Patients of Viral Load Results After 6- and 12-Month Visits

PATIENT-VISIT GROUPING CLINIC Standard-of-Care Arm Point-of-Care Arm PVALUE
N MEDIAN, DAYS (IQR) N MEDIAN, DAYS (IQR)

Adult JUTH 107 169.1 (156.0–196.0) 103 0.1 (0.1–0.2) < .0001
6 months CHCZ 61 56.0 (48.0–63.1) 69 0.1 (0.1–0.2) < .0001
Pediatric JUTH 13 55.0 (30.0–86.0) 10 0.5 (0.1–28.0) .0009
6 months CHCZ 6 70.0 (28.0–84.9) 4 0.1 (0.1–0.2) .0103
Adult JUTH 73 169.0 (140.0–189.0) 83 0.1 (0.1–1.1) < .0001
12 months CHCZ 48 84.0 (50.0–181.5) 59 0.1 (0.1–0.2) < .0001
Pediatric JUTH 8 175.0 (46.0–195.5) 7 0.8 (0.1–53.0) .0055
12 months CHCZ 4 91.0 (49.0–133.0) 3 0.3 (0.1–1.0) .0339

P values generated using the Wilcoxon Mann-Whitney test.

Abbreviations: IQR, interquartile range; JUTH, Jos University Teaching Hospital; CHCZ, Comprehensive Health Centre Zamko.