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Skin-cleaning among hospitalized people who inject drugs: a randomized controlled trial.

Michael D SteinKristina T PhillipsDebra S HermanJulia KeosaianCatherine StewartBradley J AndersonZoe WeinsteinJane Liebschutz
Published 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.
Keyphrases
  • emergency department
  • soft tissue
  • wound healing
  • randomized controlled trial
  • ultrasound guided
  • drug induced