Addiction Medicine Consultations Reduce Readmission Rates for Patients with Serious Infections from Opioid Use Disorder

Laura R. Marks; Satish Munigala; David K. Warren; Stephen Y. Liang; Evan S. Schwarz; Michael J. Durkin

doi:10.1093/cid/ciy924

Addiction Medicine Consultations Reduce Readmission Rates for Patients with Serious Infections from Opioid Use Disorder

Laura R. Marks, Satish Munigala, David K. Warren, Stephen Y. Liang, Evan S. Schwarz, Michael J. Durkin

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The opioid epidemic has increased hospital admissions for serious infections related to opioid abuse. Our findings demonstrate that addiction medicine consultation is associated with increased treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), greater likelihood of completing antimicrobial therapy, and reduced readmission rates among patients with OUD and serious infections requiring hospitalization.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1935-1937
Number of pages	3
Journal	Clinical Infectious Diseases
Volume	68
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciy924
State	Published - May 17 2019

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Opioids
addiction.
bacterial infections
opioid use disorder
readmissions

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