Staging AIDS Prognoses: Extension of the Turner System. Executive Summary

摘要

The researchers classified each of 1,780 admissions into three severity stages using the diagnosis-based Severity Classification for AIDS Hospitalizations (SCAH). They concluded that SCAH is a powerful predictor of mortality risk for hospitalized people with HIV disease. CD4 lymphocyte count was a powerful predictor of mortality risk. In addition, they concluded that differences attributed to race and ethnicity may result from differential rates of immune degeneration. Both inpatient and outpatient service use increased dramatically as patients' immune systems degenerated, and white patients used substantially more outpatient clinic visits and less inpatient admissions that people of color, controlling for other factors.