Survival of adult AIDS patients in a reference hospital of a metropolitan area in Brazil Sobrevivência de pacientes adultos com Aids em hospital de referência no Nordeste brasileiro

• Main Authors: Maria F Guerreiro (Author), Ligia RS Kerr-Pontes (Author), Rosa S Mota (Author), Marcondes C França Jr (Author), Fábio F Távora (Author), Iusta Caminha (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo, 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the influence of sociodemographic, clinical, and epidemiological factors in AIDS patients survival in a reference hospital. METHODS: A sample of 502 adult AIDS patients out of 1,494 AIDS cases registered in a hospital in Fortaleza, Brazil, was investigated between 1986 and 199...