Hospital Costs of Injection Drug Use in Florida

Austin E Coye; Kasha J Bornstein; Tyler S Bartholomew; Hua Li; Stanley Wong; Naveed Z Janjua; Hansel E Tookes; Joan E St Onge

doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa823

Hospital Costs of Injection Drug Use in Florida

Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Feb 1;72(3):499-502. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa823.

Authors

Austin E Coye¹, Kasha J Bornstein¹, Tyler S Bartholomew¹, Hua Li², Stanley Wong³, Naveed Z Janjua³, Hansel E Tookes⁴, Joan E St Onge⁵

Affiliations

¹ University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.
² Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Biostatistics, Biostatistics Collaboration and Consulting Core, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.
³ BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.

Abstract

People who inject drugs (PWID) experience significant injection-related infections (IRIs) at significant healthcare system cost. This study used and validated an algorithm based on the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, to estimate hospitalized PWID populations, assess the total statewide morbidity for IRIs among PWID, and calculate associated costs of care.

Keywords: bacterial endocarditis; injection-related infections; people who inject drugs; skin and soft-tissue infections.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Florida / epidemiology
Hospital Costs
Hospitals
Humans
Pharmaceutical Preparations*
Substance Abuse, Intravenous* / complications

Substances

Pharmaceutical Preparations

Grants and funding

P30 AI073961/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States