Improving Adult ART Clinic Patient Waiting Time by Implementing an Appointment System at Gondar University Teaching Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia

Table 1

Patient sample characteristics (preintervention and postintervention).

Sample size ()	Preintervention	Postintervention
	(%)	(%)
Age (mean SD)	36.2 10.3	37.6 9.4
Sex
Male	62 (35.8%)	70 (40%)
Female	111 (64.2%)	103 (60%)
Visit types
New	19 (11%)	26 (15%)
Repeat	154 (89%)	147 (85%)
Coming for specific services
OPD	22 (12.7%)	15 (8.7%)
Pharmacy	88 (50.9%)	92 (53.2%)
Laboratory	19 (11%)	31 (19.7%)
Pharmacy and laboratory	27 (15.6)	27 (15.6%)
OPD, laboratory, and pharmacy	11 (6.4%)	6 (3.5%)

Key. OPD: Out Patient Department; = total sample size of the study.