Haidinger G, Hartl H, Kunze M, Vutuc C; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1993 Jun 6-11; 9: 924 (abstract no. PO-D28-4236).
Institute of Social Medicine, University of Vienna, Austria.
The incidence of cellular immunodeficiency (including AIDS), treated at hospitals in Austria in the year 1990, was 3.81/10(5) (n = 294, men 6.34/10(5), women 1.49/10(5)). On the average every patient with this diagnosis was admitted to the hospital 3.6 times. The average hospitalization time was 7.5 days, summing up to a mean of 27.3 days of stay per case. The patients produced a total of 8031 hospital days, costing AS 86,872.93 for care per person in 1990. In relation to the grand total of approximately 1.8 million admissions to Austrian hospitals, AIDS patients cover 0.06% of all admissions and 0.03% of patient days per year respectively.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Austria
- Female
- Hospitalization
- Hospitals
- Humans
- Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
- Incidence
- Insurance, Hospitalization
- Male
- economics
- epidemiology
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UI: 102207540
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