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. 2021 Feb 1;72(3):499-502.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa823.

Hospital Costs of Injection Drug Use in Florida

Austin E Coye  1 , Kasha J Bornstein  1 , Tyler S Bartholomew  1 , Hua Li  2 , Stanley Wong  3 , Naveed Z Janjua  3 , Hansel E Tookes  4 , Joan E St Onge  5
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Hospital Costs of Injection Drug Use in Florida

Austin E Coye et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

Abstract

People who inject drugs (PWID) experience significant injection-related infections (IRIs) at significant healthcare system cost. This study used and validated an algorithm based on the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, to estimate hospitalized PWID populations, assess the total statewide morbidity for IRIs among PWID, and calculate associated costs of care.

Keywords: bacterial endocarditis; injection-related infections; people who inject drugs; skin and soft-tissue infections.

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