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AIDS
Volume 24, Issue 17, Pages 2750-2753Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e32833f9e1d
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We determined that for HIV patients presenting with CD4 cell counts less than 350 mu l the initial higher costs of care persisted over 5 years. Fifty-nine percent of new patients between 1 April 1998 and 1 April 2003 had CD4 cell counts less than 350 mu l. Mean first year total costs ($19 917 $Cdn) were 2.5 times higher than for presentations with CD4 cell counts more than 350ml ($7840). Total annual costs of care subsequently decreased to $15 663 by year 5, but still remained higher ($8883) than those with CD4 cell counts more than 350ml despite a median CD4 cell count increase from 134 to 464 mu l.
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