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1028. Synergizing Infectious Diseases and Substance Use Treatment to Improve the Outcomes of Endocarditis in People Who Inject Drugs at a Large Academic Hospital
BACKGROUND: Philadelphia is at the epicenter of the urban opioid epidemic: currently more than 70,000 individuals use heroin and in the year 2017 there were 1,200 overdose deaths. Endocarditis in patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) requires long hospitalizations for IV antibiotic use that delays...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2018
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6255413/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy210.865 |