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Table 1 Summary statistics on individuals at baseline and summary statistics for medical costs by component

From: Geographic variation in the costs of medical care for people living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada

  

Individuals (n)

(%)

Baseline sample characteristics (n = 9577)

 Female

 

1917

20%

Period of diagnosis:

 < 1996

 

1297

13.5%

 1997–1999

 

2186

22.8%

 2000–2003

 

1657

17.3%

 2004–2007

 

1789

18.7%

 2008–2014

 

2648

27.6%

HIV risk group:

 PWID

 

2363

24.7%

 MSM

 

3116

32.5%

 MWID

 

753

7.9%

 HETa

 

3345

34.9%

Age (median)

 

45.5

–

 

Cost Component

Hospitalization

Physician Billings

Non-ART Prescriptions

ART Prescriptions

Total Costs

Zero-cost observations (%)

94.6%

13.4%

34.8%

27.6%

5.0%

Positive-cost observations

 Mean

$14,273

$530

$711

$4741

$5712

 SD

($19,635)

($946)

($1376)

($1260)

($7005)

 Skewness

4.2

7.7

9.4

1.9

10.7

 Kurtosis

28.8

99.1

202.6

7

213.5

 50th percentile

$7629

$287

$239

$4689

$5262

 99th percentile

$96,497

$4638

$5519

$9884

$31,362

  1. ART Antiretroviral Therapy, PWID People who inject drugs, MSM Men who have sex with men, HET Heterosexual
  2. a−Includes those in other and unknown HIV risk groups