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Medical care costs of patients with AIDS in San Francisco.

JAMA. 1986 Dec 12;256(22):3103-6. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/87061289
Scitovsky AA; Cline M; Lee PR

Abstract: This article reports on the findings of a study of medical care expenditures of persons with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) treated at San Francisco General Hospital in 1984. We found that mean charges per AIDS hospital admission were $9024, mean charges of patients with AIDS who received all their hospital inpatient and outpatient care at San Francisco General Hospital in 1984 ranged from $7026 to $23,425, and mean lifetime inpatient charges of patients with AIDS who died and who had received all their inpatient care at the hospital were $27,571. These latter charges were considerably lower than previously published estimates of lifetime direct medical care costs of patients with AIDS, and the possible reasons for the differences include much lower lifetime use of hospital services and somewhat lower cost per hospital day.
Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*ECONOMICS Ambulatory Care/ECONOMICS California Costs and Cost Analysis Hospitalization/ECONOMICS Hospitals, General Human Length of Stay Retrospective Studies Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Time Factors JOURNAL ARTICLE

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