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The inpatient AIDS unit: a preliminary empirical investigation of access, economic, and outcome issues.

M C Fahs, G Fulop, J Strain, H S Sacks, C Muller, P D Cleary, J Schmeidler and B Turner

Department of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029.

An AIDS unit model ("cluster beds") and a general inpatient placement model ("scatter beds") in a major teaching hospital were compared to determine whether they differed on several dimensions of care. After controlling for severity of illness, (the major predictor of admission to the AIDS unit), length of stay, charges, and inpatient mortality rates did not differ between the two settings. Equal proportions of White, Hispanic, male, and privately insured patients were found in both settings. Nursing staff turnover rates were comparable to those of other sites. However, the data raise new issues regarding access to AIDS units for older, Black, and female patients.

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