Characteristics of patients at all BEACH encounters and of those at HIV test encounters with rate of HIV tests per 1000 encounters
| Patient characteristics | All BEACH patient encounters (%) | HIV test patient encounters (%) | Rate of HIV testing per 1000 encounters (95% CIs) |
| All | 984 200 (100%) | 2588 (100%) | 2.63 (2.48 to 2.78) |
| Gender (missing) | (8948) | (16) | |
| Male | 398 154 (40.8%) | 1127 (43.8%) | 2.83 (2.59 to 3.07) |
| Female | 577 098 (59.2%) | 1445 (56.2%) | 2.50 (2.35 to 2.66) |
| Age (missing) | (8292) | (19) | |
| 1–14 y | 117 867 (12.1%) | 32 (1.3%) | 0.27 (0.17 to 0.37) |
| 15–24 y | 90 465 (9.3%) | 771 (30.0%) | 8.52 (7.82 to 9.22) |
| 25–44 y | 235 868 (24.2%) | 1398 (54.4%) | 5.93 (5.52 to 6.33) |
| 45–64 y | 268 070 (27.5%) | 332 (12.9%) | 1.24 (1.08 to 1.4) |
| 65 y and over | 263 638 (27.0%) | 36 (1.4%) | 0.14 (0.09 to 0.18) |
| Indigenous patient* | 13 114 (1.3) | 73 (2.8%) | 5.57 (3.97 to 7.16) |
| NESB† | 73 887 (8.3) | 168 (6.5%) | 2.27 (1.89 to 2.66) |
| New to practice‡ | 87 621 (9.1%) | 597 (23.1%) | 6.81 (6.03 to 7.60) |
| Seen previously | 879 592 (90.9%) | 1960 (75.7%) | 2.23 (2.10 to 2.36) |
| Opportunity to test§ | 117 515 (11.9%) | 2092 (80.8%) | 17.80 (16.72 to 18.89) |
| No opportunity to test | 866 685 (88.1%) | 496 (19.2%) | 0.57 (0.52 to 0.63) |
Missing data for patient age and gender removed from analysis, missing data for all other patient variables assumed to be ‘no’.
↵* Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander (patient self-report).
↵† NESB—non-English speaking background. The primary language spoken at home is not English (patient self-report).
↵‡ New to practice—the first visit by this patient to this practice.
↵§ Opportunity to test was defined as the patient attending for screening or was considered to be ‘at risk’ by the general practitioner—see methods for further details.