Burden and cost of inpatient care for HIV-positive paediatric patients - Status in the Cape Town metropole during the second week of March 1999

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 10 I, 2000, Pages 1008-1011

  Roux, P ^a   Henley, L ^a   Cotton, M ^a   Eley, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; OXYGEN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG COST; EPIDEMIC; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFANT; INFECTION PREVENTION; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OXYGEN THERAPY; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SOUTH AFRICA; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TUBERCULOSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

BED OCCUPANCY; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFANT; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; PREGNANCY; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0033756939     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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