The AIDS Cost and Services Utilization Survey (ACSUS) was a longitudinal study of persons with
HIV-related disease. In a combination of personal interviews and abstraction of medical and billing
records spanning an 18-month period, information was collected on more than 1,900 HIV-infected
adults and adolescents, including approximately 350 women, and on 140 HIV-infected children
under 13 years of age.
Mohr, P.E.: Patterns of Health Care Use Among HIV-Infected
Adults: Preliminary Results. AIDS Cost and Services Utilization
Survey (ACSUS) Report, No. 3. AHCPR Pub. No. 94-0105. Rockville,
MD: Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, 1994.
This report
presents preliminary results from the first ACSUS interview.
Controlling for self-reported disease stage, utilization is
examined for hospital care, nursing home care, formal and
informal home care, ambulatory medical visits, use of
azidothymidine (AZT), psychological counseling, and dental
services.
Traditionally disadvantaged groups differed from other groups in
the types of health care services used. HIV-infected minorities,
male injecting drug users and females, persons in the lowest
income category, and the unemployed appear to use services on an
emergency basis, being more likely than others to report a
hospital stay or visit to an emergency room. In contrast, white
persons and those in the highest income category were more likely
than others to report a visit to a private physician's office,
use of psychological counseling, and receipt of dental care
services.
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