[Home hospitalization: an alternative to conventional hospitalization. Future outline].

Introduction: Domiciliary hospitalization (DH) is defined as the group of treatments and healthcare carried out in the patient's home, but of complexity, intensity and duration comparable to those received by a patient in a conventional hospital.

Objective: The aim of this article is to divulge, in the neurological world, the possibility of attendance by DH.

Development: A DH would act as a supporting term for the acute hospital, as a supporting team for Primary Care, and in some cases as a unit for assessment and placing patients in their best 'therapeutic setting' as required by any community health organization.

[Survival of patients with AIDS treated with protease inhibitors].

Objective: Make a volarization of the effect on survival of the protease inhibitors used on patients with established-AIDS.

Methods: Retrospective study on patients diagnosed of AIDS between January 1989 and March 1998. The main objective is the time between diagnosis and dead.

[Impact of HIV infection in hospital environment].

Objective: Retrospective study to review the admissions at the Hospital Marina Alta due to infection for HIV or its complications and look for risk factors.

Methods: Clinical charts of patients admitted at the hospital from 1989 to 1996 were analyzed.

Results: From 11,932 admissions, 199 (1.