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High Inpatient Health Care Utilization and Charges Associated with Injection Drug Use-Related Infections: A Cohort Study, 2012-2015

Open Forum Infectious Diseases (2021) 8(3) 1-3
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofab009
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Our study describes the characteristics of patients hospitalized with injection drug use-related infection over a multiyear period in a region highly impacted by the opioid epidemic. Intensive health care needs were common in this young cohort, including high rates of readmission, high hospitalization costs, and prolonged lengths of stay.

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Rapoport, A. B., Fine, D. R., Manne-Goehler, J. M., Herzig, S. J., & Rowley, C. F. (2021). High Inpatient Health Care Utilization and Charges Associated with Injection Drug Use-Related Infections: A Cohort Study, 2012-2015. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 8(3), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab009

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