Differences in the use of health resources by Spanish and immigrant HIV-infected patients

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 458-462

  Velasco, María ^a   Castilla, Virgilio ^a   Guijarro, Carlos ^a   Moreno, Leonor ^a   Barba, Raquel ^a   Losa, Juan E ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN ALCORCÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cost; Economic evaluation; Health resource; HIV infection; Immigrant

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; DRUG USE; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EMERGENCY WARD; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HIV ASSOCIATED DEMENTIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMIGRANT; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SPAIN; VIRUS LOAD; WASTING SYNDROME;

ADULT; AFRICA; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DRUG COSTS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH RESOURCES; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PHARMACY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; SPAIN;

EID: 84866737919     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: 15781852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eimc.2012.01.007     Document Type: Article

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