Skin-cleaning among hospitalized people who inject drugs: a randomized controlled trial.
Michael D SteinKristina T PhillipsDebra S HermanJulia KeosaianCatherine StewartBradley J AndersonZoe WeinsteinJane LiebschutzPublished in: Addiction (Abingdon, England) (2020)
A skin-cleaning intervention for people who inject drugs delivered during a hospitalization did not significantly reduce either overall emergency department use or hospitalization. There was some evidence that it may have reduced injection drug use-related emergency department visits.