| g-estimation of the effect of prophylaxis therapy for pneumocystis carinii pneumonia on the survival of aids patients. | aids clinical trial group randomized trial 002 compared the effect of high-dose with low-dose 3-azido-3-deoxythymidine (azt) on the survival of aids patients. embedded within the trial was an essentially uncontrolled observational study of the effect of prophylaxis therapy for pneumocystis carinii pneumonia on survival. in this paper, we estimate the causal effect of prophylaxis therapy on survival by using the method of g-estimation to estimate the parameters of a structural nested failure time ... | 1992 | 1637895 |
| the reliability of passively collected aids surveillance data in massachusetts. | to determine the reliability of demographic, clinical, and treatment information collected during routine aids surveillance. | 2003 | 12559668 |
| update: exposure to aerosol pentamidine. | pentamidine, a drug administered in aerosol form to aids patients suffering from pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (pcp), has come under heavy fire from hospital unions and others of late. pentamidine presents a twofold occupational risk: first, there is exposure to the drug itself, which, according to many healthcare workers, is a respiratory irritant with potential long-term consequences; second, there appears to be some evidence that working in pentamidine therapy areas increases the potential o ... | 1990 | 10128646 |
| hiv-infected children in the pediatric emergency department. | forty-three nonhemophiliac, confirmed hiv-positive children followed by the children's hospital aids program made 184 visits to the children's emergency department (ed) during 1988 and 1989. the mean age was 30 +/- 28 months with a median of 25 months, a mode of 10 months, and a range from two days to 19 years. cd4 counts from within six months of the visit were available in 87% and were low enough to require pneumocystis carinii pneumonia prophylaxis under current guidelines in 52%. chief compl ... | 1993 | 8247930 |
| changes in insurance status and access to care for persons with aids in the boston health study. | the purpose of this study was to measure unmet needs and changes in insurance status for persons with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids). thirty-six percent of the study's boston-area respondents (n = 305) had a change in insurance coverage between aids diagnosis and interview. medicaid coverage increased from 14% to 41%. pneumocystis carinii pneumonia prophylaxis was nearly universal. only 5% did not receive zidovudine, and intravenous drug users were at higher risk. approximately 14% to ... | 1994 | 7998646 |
| review of death certificates to assess completeness of aids case reporting. | to assess the level of reporting of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) cases, the authors reviewed death certificates for periods of 3 months during july through december 1985 in each of four cities: washington, dc, new york city, boston, and chicago. since reporting began in 1981, these cities have reported 38 percent of all aids cases in the united states. death certificates were selected and matched to the aids surveillance registries in each city, and medical records of those not on t ... | 1987 | 3112848 |
| survival with aids in massachusetts, 1979 to 1989. | the goal of the study was to determine survival time after diagnosis of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) and to identify predictors of survival. | 1993 | 8417611 |