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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: S Afr Med J. 2010 Oct 1;100(10):675–681. doi: 10.7196/samj.3952

Table 3.

Patient outcomes at 1 year after enrolment by a) district b) facility type c) location and d) year of enrolment

N Median
CD4
N (%) dead N (%) dead before
initiating
treatment
N (%) treated Median waiting
time to treatment
(months)
Median time to death
for those who died
(months)
Overall 44866 170 8778 (19.6) 7286 (16.2) 15219 (33.9) 2.7 3.0

Patients who were eligible at enrolment 19120 90 5130 (26.8) 4047 (21.2) 10194 (53.3) 2.98 3.34
Patients who were not eligible at enrolment 14096 350 878 (6.2) 799 (5.7) 1704 (12.1) 3.54 5.55
Patients with unrecorded CD4 at enrolment 11650 NA 2770 (23.8) 2440 (20.9) 3321 (28.5) 1.49 1.79

District
Fezile Dabi 5644 154 1072 (19.0) 829 (14.7) 2731 (48.4) 1.65 2.74
Lejweleputswa 8112 166 1642 (20.2) 1287 (15.9) 3210 (39.6) 2.74 3.27
Motheo 15477 188 2648 (17.1) 2368 (15.3) 4084 (26.4) 3.70 3.17
Thabo Mofutsanyane 12108 151 2813 (23.2) 2322 (19.2) 4191 (34.6) 2.38 2.94
Xhariep 3525 211 603 (17.1) 480 (13.6) 1003 (28.5) 2.84 3.17

Distance from treatment site
Same site 12959 167 1931 (14.9) 1445 (11.2) 5364 (41.4) 2.05 3.04
<=8km 12653 160 2675 (21.1) 2136 (16.9) 5005 (39.6) 2.58 2.98
8–15km 13558 176 3107 (22.9) 2794 (20.6) 3382 (24.9) 3.90 3.31
>15km 5696 186 1065 (18.7) 911 (16.0) 1468 (25.8) 2.61 2.61

Location
Urban 3394 105 714 (21.0) 474 (14.0) 2316 (68.2) 1.42 3.04
Peri-urban 31477 173 6338 (20.1) 5431 (17.3) 9702 (30.8) 3.07 3.17
Rural 9995 188 1726 (17.3) 1381 (13.8) 3201 (32.0) 2.28 2.74

Year of enrolment
2004 6567 168 1260 (19.2) 1117 (17.0) 1748 (26.6) 4.50 4.23
2005 10872 184 2273 (20.9) 2005 (18.4) 2708 (24.9) 3.83 3.47
2006 12877 185 2485 (19.3) 2072 (16.1) 4259 (33.1) 2.68 2.91
2007 14550 147 2760 (19.0) 2092 (14.4) 6504 (44.7) 1.95 2.31