This paper compares AIDS hospital care in several European-Union countries. For this purpose hospital-care utilisation studies on inpatient days and outpatient contacts were analysed in a generic approach controlling for severity stages of AIDS. Lifetime hospital-care needs for AIDS are derived, providing useful information for health-care policy makers. In a next step, lifetime estimates are linked to estimated annual new cases of AIDS, resulting from standardised epidemiological modelling. These results on AIDS impact at the population level are reported including statistical confidence limits. Both lifetime hospital-care needs at the patient level and AIDS impact at the population level are compared between countries and related to characteristics of the national AIDS epidemics and health-care systems. A person with AIDS has a contact--either inpatient day or outpatient visit--with the hospital in 14

作者：M J, Postma；H, Kornarou；V, Paparizos；R M, Leidl；K, Tolley；J, Kyriopoulos；J C, Jager

来源：Health care management science 2000 年 3卷 1期