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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 22.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Emerg Med. 2011 Jul;58(1 0 1):S17–22.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2011.03.018

Table 1.

Patient characteristics documented in the medical record and number of patients visiting each ED* in the year before diagnosis.

No (%)
All New Positive Results Urban Academic ED Urban Community ED Suburban Community ED
Patient Characteristics (n=276) (n=70) (n=9) (n=4)
Age, y (range) 33 (17–77) 32 (20–59) 43 (25–68) 29 (20–43)
Race
  Black 127 (46) 47 (67.1) 6 (66.7) 3 (75.0)
  Other 131 (47) 20 (28.6) 2 (22.2) 1 (25.0)
  Hispanic 18 (07) 3 (4.3) 1 (11.1) 0 (0.0)
Sex
  Male 210 (76) 49 (70.0) 5 (55.6) 2 (50.0)
  Female 66 (24) 21 (30.0) 4 (44.4) 2 (50.0)
CD4 (range) 324 (0–1,756) 299 (0–1,756) 316 (20–901) 632 (316–1,305)
*

There were 76 patients with at least 1 visit to an ED, of whom 4 visited both the urban academic and urban community EDs, 2 visited both the urban academic and suburban community EDs, and 1 visited both the urban and suburban community EDs.