Infections Requiring Hospitalization of Injection Drug Users Who Participated in an Injection Opiate Maintenance Program | Zendy

Stefano Bassetti | Zendy; Matthew Hoffmann | Zendy; Heiner C. Bucher | Zendy; Ursula Flückiger | Zendy; Manuel Battegay | Zendy

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Infections Requiring Hospitalization of Injection Drug Users Who Participated in an Injection Opiate Maintenance Program

Author(s) -

Stefano Bassetti,

Matthew Hoffmann,

Heiner C. Bucher,

Ursula Flückiger,

Manuel Battegay

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/338876

Subject(s) - medicine , opiate , drug , incidence (geometry) , retrospective cohort study , injection drug use , emergency medicine , drug injection , anesthesia , pharmacology , physics , receptor , optics

A retrospective analysis of hospitalizations due to infection in 175 injection drug users was performed for the 3 years before and the period during their participation in an injection opiate maintenance program (mean duration during program, 2.6 years). Skin infections were the main reason for hospitalization. The injection opiate maintenance program did not reduce the incidence of infection leading to hospitalization among the injection drug users studied.

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