1635. Do Persons With Opioid Use Disorder and Injection-Related Infections Really Need Prolonged Hospitalizations to Complete Intravenous Antibiotic Therapy?

BACKGROUND: Persons with opioid use disorder (OUD) hospitalized with severe, injection-related infections (e.g., endocarditis) often remain inpatient to complete intravenous (IV) antibiotics due to assumptions that, if outpatient, patients will inject drugs into the IV catheter and will fail to comp...

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Autores principales: Fanucchi, Laura, Walsh, Sharon, Thornton, Alice, Nuzzo, Paul, Lofwall, Michelle
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6252405/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy209.105

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6252405/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy209.105

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