[Evaluation of medication costs in hospitalization of AIDS patients]

The aim of this study was to examine the global pharmaceutical cost of AIDS patients hospitalized in a ward of infectious diseases in Marseille. They were 209 patients at various clinical stages of HIV infection receiving or not AZT or another specific drugs. All of the 319 hospitalization stays entailed a pharmaceutical cost of 1,065,593 FF for year 1990. A detailed analysis of the therapies, excepted for AZT, determined very large expenses of anti-infectious, hypnotics and other patent drugs of gastroenterology, pneumology, stomatology and toxicology. The study showed that the total drug cost increased with the hospitalization duration.