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HIV/AIDS
Recent studies by A. Palepu and co-authors add new data to HIV/AIDS findings
November 3rd, 2008
"Critical care outcomes among HIV-infected patients have improved because of advances in HIV therapy and general improvements in intensive care unit (ICU) management. There is a high co-occurrence of drug and alcohol dependence among HIV-infected patients, and the independent role of drug and alcohol dependence among patients with and without HIV infection in outcomes of critical illness is unclear," researchers in Vancouver, Canada report. "We analyzed a prospectively collected database of 7015 index ICU admissions at 2 teaching hospitals between January 1999 and January 2006. The ICU diagnoses were determined from prospective chart review and classified according to...
Source: AIDS Weekly (2008-11-03)
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