High prevalence of injection drug use and blood-borne viral infections among patients in an urban emergency department
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Determinants of Cutaneous Injection-related Infections among Injection Drug Users at an Emergency Department.
INTRODUCTION Cutaneous injection-related infections (CIRI) are a primary reason injection drug users (IDU) access the emergency department (ED). METHODOLOGY Using Cox proportional hazard regression, we examined predictors of ED use for CIRI, stratified by sex, among 1083 supervised injection facility (SIF) users. RESULTS Over a four-year period, 289 (27%) visited the ED for CIRI, yielding a...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0233927