Brothers, Thomas;
Lewer, Dan;
Colledge-Frisby, Samantha;
Jones, Nicola;
Bonn, Matthew;
Wheeler, Alice;
Grebely, Jason;
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(2022)
Time periods of altered risk for severe injection drug use-associated skin and soft-tissue infections: protocol for a self-controlled case series in New South Wales, Australia, 2001-2018.
UCL Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health: London, UK.
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Abstract
Injection drug use-associated bacterial and fungal infections (e.g., skin and soft-tissue infections, endocarditis, osteomyelitis, etc.) are common health problems among people who inject drugs, associated with pain, disability, and death. The incidence of these infections is rising, and better understanding of the social and environmental factors that shape individual injecting practices and risk for injecting-related infections is urgently needed. Using a self-controlled study design, the aim of this proposed study is to quantify the risks of injecting-related skin and soft-tissue infections associated with initiation of, exposure to, and discontinuation of incarceration and OAT among a sample of people with opioid use disorder.
| Type: | Report |
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| Title: | Time periods of altered risk for severe injection drug use-associated skin and soft-tissue infections: protocol for a self-controlled case series in New South Wales, Australia, 2001-2018 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/000.rp.10157481 |
| Publisher version: | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology-health-care/res... |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | injection drug use, people who inject drugs, skin and soft-tissue infections, bacterial infections, self-controlled case series, opioid agonist treatment, opiate substitution treatment, incarceration, prison |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10157481 |
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