Objective To examine characteristics of positive detections of human immunodeficiency virus(HIV) and HIV-positive patients among examinees in a general hospital from 2006 to 2016. Methods We collected results of serum HIV antibody detection for 646 040 examinees from 2006 through 2016 in the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University from the hospital's Clinical Information Management System; then we collected relevant data on 1 036 HIVpositive patients diagnosed among all the examinees from the ...