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Demographics and Length of Stay for Osteomyelitis in Opioid Drug Users: A Unique Population with High Healthcare Costs

Osteomyelitis is an infection of the bone. Risk factors include, but are not limited to, diabetes and intravenous drug use. The hypotheses for the primary objectives of this study were that the opioid epidemic would cause a younger population of patients to be seen with osteomyelitis and the treatme...

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Autores principales: Yuschak, Eric, Chase, Stacy, Haq, Furqan, Vandever, Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6541152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31187004
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4339