Document 0433
 DOCN  M9620433
 TI    Health insurance and utilization in Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
 DT    9602
 AU    Loue S; Slymen DJ; Morgenstern H; Whalen C; Department of Medicine,
       University of California, Los Angeles,; USA.
 SO    J Gen Intern Med. 1995 Aug;10(8):461-3. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/96037351
 AB    To examine the relationship between health insurance status and health
       services utilization among HIV-infected patients with active
       Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), the discharge and outpatient
       databases of a large California medical facility were reviewed. Four
       hundred fifty records met the inclusion criteria. Logistic regression
       indicated that those who had publicly funded insurance were about half
       as likely (95% CI 0.28, 0.99) as were those who had private insurance to
       undergo bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage at the time of their
       first PCP episodes. Further research is required to identify the reasons
       for this difference.
 DE    Adult  AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/*DIAGNOSIS/DRUG THERAPY
       Bronchoscopy  California  Comparative Study  Female  Human  *HIV-1
       Insurance, Health/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA/*UTILIZATION  Logistic Models
       Longitudinal Studies  Male  Pentamidine/THERAPEUTIC USE  Pneumonia,
       Pneumocystis carinii/*DIAGNOSIS/DRUG THERAPY  Support, U.S. Gov't,
       P.H.S.  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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