Evaluation of the Utility of Point-of-Care HIV Testing on a Canadian Internal Medicine Inpatient Unit

Table 1

Reasons for patient exclusion from study participation (n = 164).

Reason	Prevalence
Refused to participate in study (too tired, too ill, etc.)	58 (35%)
Did not want to know HIV status	7 (4.3%)
Perceived to lack risk	6 (3.6%)
Palliative	3 (1.8%)
No reason given	37 (23%)
Unable to consent	51 (31%)
Already known to have HIV	2 (1.2%)