The HIV Testing Trends and Outcomes at a Johannesburg Trauma ICU Unit

University of Witwatersrand

Status: Completed

Conditions: Outcome, Fatal

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Elisa HIV testing

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05484947

Witwatersrand

Details and patient eligibility

About

A retrospective observational study on the HIV testing trend and outcomes in a trauma population admitted to a critical care unit for care.

Full description

Trauma ICU admission of 18 years and older were enrolled in the study. The HIV status was further divided into HIV-positive, HIV-negative, and HIV-unknown subgroups. The gender, ages, mechanism of injury, injuries sustained, ISS, physiological data, septic-related complications, and in-hospital mortality were noted and further analyzed.

Descriptive statistics were utilised using STATA version 15, and a p-value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant.

Enrollment: 868 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: Trauma patients admitted to a Trauma ICU at CMJAH -

Exclusion Criteria: Those under the age of 18 or with incomplete data

Trial design

868 participants in 3 patient groups

HIV-positive

Description:

Those that were actually tested and had HIV-positive results

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Elisa HIV testing

HIV-Negative

Description:

Those tested and had HIV-negative results

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Elisa HIV testing

HIV-Unknown

Description:

those who had not volunteered for HIV testing