{"title":"Length of Stay, Hospitalization Cost, and Infection Rate for Inpatients With Vascular Access Devices With and Without History of Injection Drug Use","authors":"Laura Soloway, Tarja Kärpänen","doi":"10.2309/java-d-23-00015","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":504313,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Vascular Access","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the Association for Vascular Access","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2309/java-d-23-00015","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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.