Table 2.
Psychosocial and Systems Level Characteristics Along the HIV Care Continuum for Patients Newly Diagnosed With HIV During an Inpatient Hospitalization at Grady Memorial Hospital, 2011–2012 (N = 94)
| Retention | Viral suppression | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New diagnosis (N = 94) | Test result before DC (N = 79) | Linked by 30 days (N = 44) | Linked by 90 days (N = 64) | 12 Month (N = 69) | 24 month (N = 51) | 12 Month (N = 69) | 24 month (N = 51) | |
| Characteristics | N (%) or Median (IQR) | |||||||
| Psychosocial | ||||||||
| Language | ||||||||
| English | 83 (88) | 70 (89) | 39 (89) | 56 (87) | 61 (88) | 44 (86) | 38 (84) | 30 (83) |
| Non-English | 11 (12) | 9 (11) | 5 (11) | 8 (13) | 8 (12) | 7 (14) | 7 (16) | 6 (17) |
| Birth country | ||||||||
| Continental US | 73 (78) | 62 (78) | 35 (80) | 49 (77) | 51 (74) | 36 (70) | 30 (67) | 24 (67) |
| Noncontinental US | 21 (22) | 17 (22) | 9 (20) | 15 (23) | 18 (26) | 15 (30) | 15 (33) | 12 (33) |
| Active Cocaine | 13 (14) | 11 (14) | 5 (11) | 7 (11) | 8 (12) | 3 (6) | 2 (4) | 2 (6) |
| Homeless | 17 (18) | 14 (18) | 7 (16) | 9 (14) | 11 (16) | 7 (14) | 7 (16) | 4 (11) |
| Mental illness | 11 (12) | 9 (11) | 6 (14) | 10 (16) | 11 (16) | 9 (18) | 5 (11) | 5 (14) |
| Systems | ||||||||
| Year of diagnosis | ||||||||
| 2011 | 49 (52) | 40 (51) | 28 (64) | 35 (55) | 35 (51) | 25 (49) | 20 (44) | 16 (44) |
| 2012 | 45 (48) | 39 (49) | 16 (36) | 29 (45) | 34 (49) | 26 (51) | 25 (56) | 20 (56) |
| Admission service | ||||||||
| Non-medicine | 7 (7) | 7 (9) | 4 (9) | 5 (8) | 6 (9) | 4 (8) | 5 (11) | 5 (14) |
| Medicine | 87 (93) | 72 (91) | 40 (91) | 59 (92) | 63 (91) | 47 (92) | 40 (89) | 31 (86) |
| SW visit before discharge | 82 (87) | 77 (98) | 37 (84) | 56 (88) | 62 (90) | 46 (90) | 41 (91) | 32 (89) |
| Planned f/u appt | 49 (52) | 39 (49) | 21 (47) | 33 (52) | 36 (52) | 26 (51) | 26 (58) | 21 (58) |
| Length of stay, days | 7 (4–18) | 10 (5–20) | 6 (3–13) | 7 (3–17) | 7 (4–18) | 8 (4–18) | 10 (5–20) | 9 (4–18) |
SW, social worker; F/U, follow-up; Appt, appointment.