Length of Stay, Hospitalization Cost, and Infection Rate for Inpatients With Vascular Access Devices With and Without History of Injection Drug Use-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Length of Stay, Hospitalization Cost, and Infection Rate for Inpatients With Vascular Access Devices With and Without History of Injection Drug Use

Published:2023-12-01 Issue:4 Volume:28 Page:23-30
ISSN:1557-1289
Container-title:Journal of the Association for Vascular Access
language:en
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Author:

Soloway Laura¹,Kärpänen Tarja²

Affiliation:

1. 3M Health Care, Global Medical and Clinical Affairs, St. Paul, MN

2. 3M Health Care, Global Medical and Clinical Affairs, 3M Deutschland GmbH, Neuss, Germany

Abstract

Highlights The rate of IDU among those who received a VAD placement was 3%. The VAD + IDU patients had 1.8 times longer mean LOS than VAD-only cohorts. The VAD + IDU cohort had 1.9 times higher mean inpatient cost than VAD-only cohorts. PPCRI increased in VAD + IDU cohort during pandemic.

Publisher

Association for Vascular Access

Subject

Medicine (miscellaneous)

Link

https://meridian.allenpress.com/java/article-pdf/28/4/23/3301940/i1557-1289-28-4-23.pdf

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