Determinants of antimicrobial prophylaxis use and treatment for wasting among patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus disease in the United States, 1995-1998.

Pubmed ID: 11118390

Journal: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Publication Date: Jan. 1, 2001

Affiliation: Depts. of Laboratory Medicine, Medicine and Epidemiology/Biostatistics, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0884, USA. murphy@labmed.ucsf.edu

MeSH Terms: Humans, Male, Adult, Female, United States, Middle Aged, Cytomegalovirus Infections, AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections, HIV Wasting Syndrome, Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection, Pneumonia, Pneumocystis

Grants: N01 HB57121

Authors: Murphy EL, Assmann SF, Collier AC, Flanigan TP, Kumar PN, Wallach FR, Krubel S

Cite As: Murphy EL, Assmann SF, Collier AC, Flanigan TP, Kumar PN, Wallach FR, Krubel S. Determinants of antimicrobial prophylaxis use and treatment for wasting among patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus disease in the United States, 1995-1998. Clin Infect Dis 2001 Jan;32(1):116-23. Epub 2000 Dec 15.

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Abstract

Despite US Public Health Service (USPHS) recommendations for antimicrobial prophylaxis for patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease, the proportion of patients who receive prophylaxis is not known. We measured the prevalence of antimicrobial prophylaxis use, and treatment for HIV wasting at baseline among 531 patients with advanced HIV disease enrolled in a multicenter randomized trial of red blood cell transfusion. Use of antimicrobial prophylaxis and treatment for wasting in the 30 days before enrollment was ascertained in patients eligible for primary prophylaxis, secondary prophylaxis, or both, according to USPHS guidelines. There was high utilization of primary and secondary Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia prophylaxis, variability in primary Mycobacterium avium complex prophylaxis by center, and low use of primary cytomegalovirus prophylaxis. Treatment of wasting was more common in white than nonwhite patients and in patients with HIV disease who lived in the region west of the Mississippi River of the United States versus those whose lived in the eastern region.