Cost and Outcome of Intensive Care for Patients With AIDS, Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia, and Severe Respiratory Failure

APACHE II-A Severity of Disease Classification System

1986 • 12,607 citations

Pulmonary Complications of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

1984 • 698 citations

A Controlled Trial of Early Adjunctive Treatment with Corticosteroids forPneumocystis cariniiPneumonia in the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

1990 • 485 citations

Setting Health Care Priorities in Oregon

1991 • 448 citations

Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Benefit Analyses in the Medical Literature

1992 • 426 citations

Spectrum of pulmonary diseases associated with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome

1985 • 369 citations

Corticosteroids as Adjunctive Therapy for SeverePneumocystis cariniiPneumonia in the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

1990 • 367 citations

Long-term Cost-effectiveness of Various Initial Monotherapies for Mild to Moderate Hypertension

1990 • 271 citations

The Doctor's Master

1984 • 264 citations

Decisions about Resuscitation: Inequities among Patients with Different Diseases but Similar Prognoses

1989 • 250 citations

Corticosteroids Prevent Early Deterioration in Patients with Moderately Severe Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

1990 • 246 citations

The Lifetime Cost of Treating a Person With HIV

1993 • 239 citations

Cost and health implications of cholesterol lowering.

1992 • 214 citations

Rationing of intensive care unit services. An everyday occurrence

1986 • 213 citations

Patterns of Resource Consumption in Medical Intensive Care*

1991 • 204 citations

Intensive Care of Patients with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

1986 • 196 citations

Intensive care, survival, and expense of treating critically ill cancer patients.

1993 • 189 citations

Preferences of Homosexual Men with AIDS for Life-Sustaining Treatment

1986 • 171 citations

Changing disease patterns in patients with AIDS in a referral centre in the United Kingdom: the changing face of AIDS.

1991 • 166 citations

Cutting into cholesterol. Cost-effective alternatives for treating hypercholesterolemia

1988 • 160 citations

CD4 Count and the Risk for Death in Patients Infected with HIV Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy

1991 • 157 citations

Cost Containment and the Physician

1985 • 156 citations

The Economic Impact of the First 10,000 Cases of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in the United States

1986 • 150 citations

Cost Effectiveness of Bone Marrow Transplantation in Acute Nonlymphocytic Leukemia

1989 • 149 citations

Cost Effectiveness of Low-Dose Zidovudine Therapy for Asymptomatic Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection

1991 • 140 citations

Survival and Prognostic Factors in SeverePneumocystis cariniiPneumonia Requiring Mechanical Ventilation

1988 • 122 citations

Comparing benefits and harms: the balance sheet

1990 • 113 citations

Medical care costs of patients with AIDS in San Francisco

1986 • 108 citations

Improved Short-term Survival of AIDS Patients Initially Diagnosed With Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia, 1984 Through 1987

1990 • 104 citations

Changes in AIDS Survival Time in Two San Francisco Cohorts of Homosexual Men, 1983 to 1993

1994 • 101 citations

Pneumocystis cariniiPneumonia and Respiratory Failure in AIDS: Improved Outcomes and Increased Use of Intensive Care Units

1991 • 101 citations

Intensive care units, scarce resources, and conflicting principles of justice

1986 • 98 citations

ICU survival of patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

1986 • 91 citations

Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia: Diagnosis

1988 • 88 citations

Acute Respiratory Failure Secondary to Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia in the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

1989 • 87 citations

Is the Oregon Rationing Plan Fair?

1991 • 79 citations

Projections of national health expenditures through the year 2000.

1991 • 79 citations

Changes in Survival after Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS): 1984–1991

1993 • 79 citations

Survival following mechanical ventilation for pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: a different perspective

1989 • 78 citations

The Cost-effectiveness of Cervical Cancer Screening for Low-Income Elderly Women

1988 • 75 citations

Admission of AIDS patients to a medical intensive care unit

1989 • 72 citations

Improved Survival in Patients with AIDS, Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia, and Severe Respiratory Failure

1989 • 66 citations

Causes of death in persons with human immunodeficiency virus infection

1992 • 62 citations

Critical Care of Patients With AIDS

1992 • 60 citations

Prognosis of Patients with AIDS Requiring Intensive Care

1989 • 59 citations

Continuous positive airway pressure by face mask or mechanical ventilation in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection and severePneumocystis carinii pneumonia

1992 • 58 citations

Decreasing Frequency But Worsening Mortality of Acute Respiratory Failure Secondary to AIDS-Related Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia

1994 • 56 citations

Primary prophylaxis for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in HIV-infected people with CD4 counts below 200/mm3: a cost-effectiveness analysis.

1991 • 56 citations

Mechanical Ventilation for Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia in Patients With the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

1993 • 55 citations

Outcome of Intensive Care in Patients with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

1986 • 52 citations

The Organization of Medical Care -- Lessons from the Medicare End Stage Renal Disease Program

1993 • 50 citations

Long-term Survival of Patients With AIDS, Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia, and Respiratory Failure

1991 • 45 citations

Attitudes of Medical Residents Regarding Intensive Care for Patients With the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

1988 • 44 citations

Studying the Cost of HIV-Related Illnesses: Reflections on the Moving Target

1989 • 39 citations

Multisystem Organ Failure Predicts Mortality of ICU Patients With Acute Respiratory Failure Secondary to AIDS-Related PCP

1992 • 37 citations

Equal survival rates for first, second, and third episodes of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

1992 • 36 citations

Changing use of intensive care for HIV-infected patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.

1994 • 35 citations

Intensive care unit patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

1991 • 35 citations

The Relation Between Resource Use and In-hospital Mortality for Patients With Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome–Related Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia

1990 • 32 citations

The costs of AIDS in Los Angeles.

1991 • 21 citations

Length of Stay and Survival after Intensive Care for Severe Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia

1992 • 20 citations

Improved outcomes in intensive care units for AIDS-related Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia: 1987-1991.

1993 • 16 citations

Longitudinal patterns of California Medicaid recipients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

1991 • 9 citations

The effect of human immunodeficiency virus infection on the distribution and outcome of pneumonia in intensive care units.

1992 • 8 citations

Ration or rescue

1989 • 4 citations

Evaluating the Oregon Priority Plan

1991 • 3 citations