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. 2019 Aug 19;15:14–22. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2019.08.007

Table 2.

Characteristics of participants with a determined HIV status across all sites.

Total
(n = 2901) (100.0%)
HIV negative
(n = 2090)
(72.0%)
Known HIV positive
(n = 577)
(19.9%)
Newly diagnosed HIV positive
(n = 234)
(8.1%)
p-Value
Age
 < 20 132 121 (5.79%) 4 (0.69%) 7 (2.99%) < 0.001
 20–25 542 431 (20.62%) 65 (11.27%) 46 (19.66%)
 26–35 816 526 (25.17%) 192 (33.28%) 98 (41.88%)
 36–45 500 276 (13.21%) 175 (30.33%) 49 (20.94%)
 46–55 358 253 (12.10%) 91 (15.77%) 14 (5.98%)
 56 + 553 483 (23.11%) 50 (8.66%) 20 (8.55%)
Sex
 Female 1443 934 (44.69%) 399 (69.15%) 110 (47.01%) < 0.001
 Male 1458 1156 (55.31%) 178 (30.85%) 124 (52.99%)
Presenting compliant
 Medical 1723 1137 (54.40%) 430 (74.52%) 156 (66.67%) < 0.001
 Trauma 1178 953 (45.60%) 147 (25.48%) 78 (33.33%)
Time of presentation
 Routine hours 1157 812 (38.85%) 252 (43.67%) 93 (39.74%) 0.111
 Out of hours 1744 1278 (61.15%) 325 (56.33%) 141 (60.26%)
SATSa
 Emergency 23 17 (0.81%) 5 (0.87%) 1 (0.43%) < 0.001
 Very urgent 564 378 (18.09%) 130 (22.53%) 56 (23.93%)
 Urgent 1745 1235 (59.09%) 363 (62.91%) 147 (62.82%)
 Routine 569 460 (22.01%) 79 (13.69%) 30 (12.82%)
Disposition
 Death 7 4 (0.19%) 3 (0.52%) 0 (0.0%)
 Admission 639 419 (20.05%) 165 (28.60%) 55 (23.50%)
 Emergent surgery 87 65 (3.11%) 16 (2.77%) 6 (2.56%) < 0.001
 ICU admission 3 2 (0.09%) 0 (0.0%) 1 (0.43%)
 Transfer 297 208 (9.95%) 68 (11.79%) 21 (8.97%)
 Discharge 1659 1259 (60.24%) 272 (47.14%) 128 (54.70%)
 Absconded 80 66 (3.16%) 9 (1.56%) 5 (2.14%)
 Unassigned 129 67 (3.21%) 44 (7.62%) 18 (7.69%)
a

The number of patients with a documented test (N) was used as the denominator when calculating the proportion with a positive or negative result (n).