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| Title: |
Cross-sectional survey of hospital paediatric HIV/AIDS care in Catalonia, 1992 |
| Author: |
MIRET, M. VALL, M. FORTUNY, C. CASABONA, J. CONTRIBUTORS, HOSPITAL |
| Appeared in: |
AIDS care |
| Paging: | Volume 9 (1997) nr. 4 pages 461-469 |
| Year: |
1997-08-01 |
| Contents: |
A cross-sectional survey to assess the impact of the paediatric HIV/AIDS epidemic on the hospital-based health care system was performed in state-financed hospitals in Catalonia during 1992, raising issues of relevance today. Out of the 27 hospitals contacted, 20 responded. A considerable proportion of the health care to children with an HIV-related condition was provided by four hospitals. The average length of stay of the 176 HIV patients who were admitted was 10.8 days; these patients were admitted to the hospital twice a year on average. Nearly half of the out-patients who attended with an HIV-related condition were either seropositive without a confirmed diagnosis of an HIV infection (class P-0) or seronegative. Thirteen per cent of the overall admissions to paediatric day care hospitals were attributable to an HIV-related condition. By ownership status of the hospitals, HIV/AIDS paediatric in-patients of public hospitals generated the majority of admissions per patient per year, and had the shortest lengths of stay. Unlike the HIV/AIDS epidemic in adults, the magnitude and characteristics of the epidemic in children may not require the shift of hospital-based health care to primary health care. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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