@article{3742e86fb7844fa394c74811fd2723e6,
title = "Addiction Medicine Consultations Reduce Readmission Rates for Patients with Serious Infections from Opioid Use Disorder",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "Opioids, addiction., bacterial infections, opioid use disorder, readmissions",
author = "Marks, {Laura R.} and Satish Munigala and Warren, {David K.} and Liang, {Stephen Y.} and Schwarz, {Evan S.} and Durkin, {Michael J.}",
note = "Funding Information: Financial support. This work was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the NIH (grant numbers KL2TR002346, CRTCUL1RR024992, and T32 AI007172). Potential conflicts of interest. D. K. W. has received payments from Pfizer, and personal fees from Centene, Carefusion/BD, Pursuit Vascular, and PDI. All other authors report no potential conflicts. All authors have submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest. Conflicts that the editors consider relevant to the content of the manuscript have been disclosed. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved.",
year = "2019",
month = may,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1093/cid/ciy924",
language = "English",
volume = "68",
pages = "1935--1937",
journal = "Clinical Infectious Diseases",
issn = "1058-4838",
number = "11",
}