Palliative care for AIDS at a large urban teaching hospital: program description and preliminary outcomes.

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Program Development 100%
• Urban Hospitals 89%
• Palliative Care 77%
• Teaching Hospitals 74%
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome 66%
• Referral and Consultation 27%
• HIV 21%
• Inpatients 19%
• Mental Status and Dementia Tests 19%
• Symptom Assessment 14%
• CD4 Lymphocyte Count 12%
• Activities of Daily Living 12%
• Viral Load 11%
• United States Health Resources and Services Administration 9%
• Mortality 9%
• Ethicists 9%
• Chronic Disease 9%
• Virus Diseases 9%
• Patient Care Planning 8%
• Clergy 8%
• Social Workers 7%
• End Stage Liver Disease 7%
• Nurse Practitioners 7%
• Complex Mixtures 6%
• Liver Failure 6%
• Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders 6%
• Liver Neoplasms 6%
• Ambulatory Care 6%
• Hispanic Americans 5%
• African Americans 5%
• Liver Cirrhosis 5%
• Nausea 5%
• Vomiting 5%
• Young Adult 4%
• Sepsis 4%
• Cause of Death 4%
• Psychiatry 4%
• Occupational Groups 4%
• Anxiety 4%
• Regression Analysis 4%
• Depression 4%
• Logistic Models 4%
• Physicians 3%
• T-Lymphocytes 3%
• Morbidity 3%
• Pain 3%
• Injections 3%
• Pharmaceutical Preparations 2%
• Population 2%
• Neoplasms 1%
• Therapeutics 1%