Missed Testing Opportunities for HIV Screening and Early Diagnosis in an Urban Tertiary Care Center

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of newly diagnosed HIV patients at University Hospital HIV Clinic, Newark, New Jersey, 2013-2014.

	= 117 (37%)
Mean age	37
Gender
Male	72 (62%)
Self-identified race
African American	83 (71%)
Hispanic	7 (6%)
White	5 (4%)
Others	18 (15%)
Unknown	4 (3%)
HIV risk factor
Heterosexual	59 (50%)
MSM	36 (31%)
Injection drug use	8 (7%)
Bisexual	4 (3%)
Transfusion	3 (3%)
Unknown	4 (3%)
Commercial sex worker	1 (1%)
Other	2 (2%)
Site of diagnosis
Inpatient	27 (23%)
Outpatient	90 (77%)
HIV RNA > 100,000 copies/mL	34 (29%)
CD4 < 200 cells/μL	34 (29%)
CD4 < 50 cells/μL	20 (17%)

MSM: men who have sex with men.