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Table 2 Descriptive statistics of selected time-varying covariates by HSDA

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

 

Individualsa

Observations

Percentage of person-quarters (observations)

 

Risk groupb

ART status

Female

MSM

PWID

MWID

on ART

off ART

ART-naïve

Overall

9577

140,137

20.1%

33.2%

25.6%

8.4%

74.6%

19.4%

5.9%

Interior Health

 East Kootenay

75

443

33.2%

23.0%

18.5%

0.7%

52.8%

43.1%

4.1%

 Kootenay Boundary

93

794

35.4%

21.9%

37.0%

2.6%

75.3%

17.1%

7.6%

 Okanagan

546

4913

23.6%

22.0%

32.0%

8.7%

72.8%

22.1%

5.1%

 Thompson Cariboo

305

2668

25.6%

17.5%

34.1%

3.8%

53.6%

40.6%

5.8%

Fraser Health

 Fraser East

573

3191

35.6%

16.1%

32.8%

6.5%

59.9%

36.2%

3.9%

 Fraser North

3126

14,756

26.8%

14.6%

35.7%

6.4%

61.9%

32.3%

5.8%

 Fraser South

1569

8309

34.5%

15.5%

39.1%

4.5%

65.4%

27.6%

7.1%

Vancouver Coastal Health

 Richmond

270

1355

28.6%

19.2%

25.8%

4.0%

62.1%

29.0%

8.9%

 Vancouver

7068

80,964

14.2%

44.9%

18.1%

10.0%

81.8%

12.7%

5.5%

 North Shore/Coast Garibaldi

497

2586

22.0%

23.6%

26.5%

4.8%

62.0%

31.4%

6.6%

Island Health

 South Vancouver Island

1509

10,869

19.1%

22.1%

33.7%

8.1%

72.1%

20.4%

7.5%

 Central Vancouver Island

423

3304

30.3%

19.5%

33.5%

7.9%

68.8%

23.9%

7.4%

 North Vancouver Island

168

1499

42.0%

8.7%

43.2%

8.7%

65.6%

28.2%

6.2%

Northern Health

 Northwest

146

1179

40.2%

3.8%

59.0%

3.7%

53.8%

36.8%

9.4%

 Northern Interior

335

2734

38.7%

10.8%

51.8%

2.3%

59.2%

33.6%

7.0%

 Northeast

85

573

35.1%

7.5%

23.7%

5.4%

49.4%

44.0%

6.6%

  1. ART Antiretroviral Therapy, MSM Men who have sex with men, PWID Person who injects drugs, MWID MSM who inject drugs
  2. aNumber of individuals by HSDA is the number of unique individuals ever in a particular HSDA over the course of the study. Given that individuals can appear in multiple HSDAs over time, the sum of individuals by HSDA is higher than the total number of individuals
  3. bRemaining percentage includes heterosexual, other and unknown risk