Cutaneous disease and drug reactions in HIV infection

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Patients with HIV infection often develop skin diseases including those caused by adverse reactions to drugs. Among 684 individuals with HIV infection, 79% had one or more skin disease. Eight percent of the skin diseases diagnosed among these patients were caused by an adverse reaction to a drug. Forty-three hospitalizations occurred among the patients for different types of skin disease. Fifteen of the hospitalizations were for cellulitis and 13 were for adverse drug reactions. Individuals in an advanced stage of HIV infection were more likely to develop a skin disease than those in an earlier stage. Drugs that often caused complications affecting the skin included trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, sulfadiazine, trimethoprim-dapsone and aminopenicillins.

Drugs, Causes of, Complications and side effects, HIV infection, HIV infections, Skin diseases, Adverse drug reactions

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A beneficial side effect of the Medicare drug benefit

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An unintended effect of the Medicare Part D benefit could be the creation of the world's most valuable resource of understanding how drugs are used, especially by the elderly and chronically ill and their risks and benefits. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed linking Medicare drug claims with diagnosis and procedure claims for which it must create a fully linked data set and ensure that it remains current.

United States, Administration of Public Health Programs, Health Care Financing Admin, Evaluation, United States. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Medicare Part D

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