Table 1.
Impact of routine opt-out counselor-initiated HIV testing on proportion of patients tested at Kamuzu Central Hospital, Malawi
| Pre-Intervention May 2011 – Oct 2011 Clinician Referral |
Post-Intervention Nov 2011 – April 2012 Counselor-Initiated |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | p | |
| Medicine ward admissions | N=2957 | N=3154 | |||
| Patients tested of total admissions | 643/2957 | 21.7 | 1228/3154 | 38.9 | <.0001 |
| Unknown HIV status on admission | 1774/2957* | 60* | 1905/3154 | 60.4 | |
| Patients tested with unknown admission status | 643/1774* | 36.2* | 1228/1905 | 64.5 | <.0001 |
| Sex of patients tested | N=643 | N=1228 | .049 | ||
| Male | 358 | 55.7 | 625 | 50.9 | |
| Female | 285 | 44.3 | 1228 | 49.1 | |
| Age (years) of patients tested | N=642** | N=1166** | <.074 | ||
| Median (IQR) | 33 | 26–45 | 34 | 25–53 | |
| Outcome of inpatient HIV testing | N=643 | N=1228 | <.001 | ||
| Negative | 441 | 68.6 | 1001 | 81.5 | |
| Positive | 202 | 31.4 | 227 | 18.5 | |
*
Estimated number and percentage of patients with an unknown HIV admission status was based on the estimates from previous periods as described in the text.
**
N does not equal number of patients tested due to missing data.