Open AccessChanges in Infective Endocarditis Admissions in Pennsylvania During the Opioid Epidemic
Author(s) -
Jessica Meisner,
Judith A. Anesi,
Xinwei Chen,
David Grande
Publication year - 2019
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 - 10.1093/cid/ciz1038
Subject(s) - medicine , medicaid , confidence interval , infective endocarditis , retrospective cohort study , emergency medicine , endocarditis , incidence (geometry) , cohort , pediatrics , health care , physics , optics , economics , economic growth
With the current opioid crisis in the United States, infectious complications related to injection drug use are increasingly reported. Pennsylvania is at the epicenter of the opioid crisis, with the third highest rate of drug overdose deaths in the United States.
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