Document 0633
 DOCN  M9590633
 TI    Study questions increasing cost of intensive care of pneumocystis.
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 DT    9509
 SO    AIDS Policy Law. 1995 Feb 10;10(2):2. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       AIDS/95700162
 AB    According to a new study, intensive care for AIDS patients with severe
       pneumonia is becoming so expensive that policy makers may decide to
       ration or refuse treatments. Researchers at the University of
       California-San Francisco (UCSF) found that it costs an average of
       $215,000 to extend by one year the life of an AIDS patient who is
       treated for pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) in a hospital's
       intensive care unit. This is twice as much as comparable care cost in
       1988. AIDS patients are surviving longer, with some suffering their
       second or third PCP infection, increasing the cost. Researchers were
       careful to note that rationing health care means certain death for some
       AIDS patients with PCP.
 DE    AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/NURSING/*THERAPY  Cost-Benefit
       Analysis  *Health Care Costs  Health Care Rationing/LEGISLATION &
       JURISPRUD  Health Policy  Human  Intensive Care/*ECONOMICS  Pneumonia,
       Pneumocystis carinii/NURSING/*THERAPY  Quality of Life  NEWSLETTER
       ARTICLE

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