Many Opportunities to Record, Diagnose, or Treat Injection Drug-related Infections Are Missed: A Population-based Cohort Study of Inpatient and Emergency Department Settings

摘要

Background Injection drug use (IDU) and IDU-related infections have increased dramatically. However, the incidence of IDU-related infections may be underreported because drug use is not recorded in diagnostic records where associated infections are identified. Our goal was to estimate a more accurate incidence of IDU-related infections by including IDU-related infections not recorded at the time infections are diagnosed.