Table 1.
Provider, Practice, and Medical Care Characteristics of HIV Care Providers Who Provided Reasons for Delaying ART Initiation for Clinically Eligible Patients.a,b
| Characteristics | No. (%) |
|---|---|
| Profession | |
| Physician | 432 (69) |
| Nurse practitioner/physician assistant | 192 (31) |
| Age (years) | |
| 20-34 | 34 (5) |
| 35-49 | 296 (47) |
| 50-64 | 267 (43) |
| 65-88 | 23 (4) |
| Gender | |
| Male | 307 (49) |
| Female | 317 (51) |
| Race/ethnicity | |
| African American | 44 (7) |
| Hispanic | 60 (10) |
| White | 463 (74) |
| Other | 47 (8) |
| Years caring for HIV-infected patients | |
| 0-5 | 84 (13) |
| 6-10 | 102 (16) |
| 11-30 | 434 (69) |
| Knowledgeable regarding HIV treatment? | |
| Extremely/very | 561 (90) |
| Somewhat/not at all | 64 (10) |
| HIV-infected patients/month | |
| 0-20 | 127 (20) |
| 21-50 | 155 (25) |
| 51 or more | 340 (54) |
| White patients | |
| 0%-50% | 462 (74) |
| 51%-100% | 131 (21) |
| Female patients | |
| 0%-50% | 577 (92) |
| 51%-100% | 46 (7) |
| Men who have sex with men | |
| 0%-50% | 248 (40) |
| 51%-100% | 371 (59) |
| Injecting drug users | |
| 0%-50% | 578 (92) |
| 51%-100% | 45 (7) |
| Refer for ART initiation | |
| Never | 542 (87) |
| Sometimes | 45 (7) |
| Always | 34 (5) |
| Sufficient time to provide HIV care | |
| Agree | 399 (63) |
| Neither agree nor disagree | 56 (9) |
| Not agree | 166 (27) |
Abbreviations: ART, antiretroviral therapy; MMP, Medical Monitoring Project.
aN = 625—MMP Provider Survey 2009.
bNumbers may not add to total and percentage may not total 100% because of missing data. Values exclude don’t know responses.