The costs of adult inpatient care for HIV disease at GF Jooste Hospital

The lack of patient care and utilisation data impairs the ability of hospital and clinic administrators to make informed, data-driven policy choices. This concern is particularly acute with HIV/AIDS, given both the striking growth in the local epidemic over the last two years and the high level of HIV-related health expenditures shouldered by the provincial medical system in the Western Cape province of South Africa. A retrospective chart review was conducted to capture clinical and utilisation data of from a sample of 59 inpatients, who were admitted to a township secondary hospital near Cape Town, South Africa during 1997. Three years of data were abstracted and analysed.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Health Economics Unit

Year dc:date.issued

2000

Author dc:creator

• Haile, Brian

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• McIntyre, Di

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9434

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/9434