Prevalence and correlates of abscesses among a cohort of injection drug users 英文参考文献.docVIP

Harm Reduction Journal BioMedCentral Brief report Open Access Prevalence and correlates of abscesses among a cohort of injection drug users Elisa Lloyd-Smith1,2, Thomas Kerr2,3, Robert S Hogg1,2,3, Kathy Li2, Julio SG Montaner2,3 and Evan Wood*2,3 Address: 1Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine; University of British Columbia, 5804 Fairview Ave, Vancouver, Canada, 2British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS; St. Pauls Hospital, 608-1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, Canada and 3Department of Medicine; University of British Columbia, 3300 – 950 W. 10th Ave, Vancouver, Canada Email: Elisa Lloyd-Smith - esmith@cfenet.ubc.ca; Thomas Kerr - tkerr@cfenet.ubc.ca; Robert S Hogg - bobhogg@cfenet.ubc.ca; Kathy Li - kathyli@cfenet.ubc.ca; Julio SG Montaner - jmontaner@cfenet.ubc.ca; Evan Wood* - ewood@cfenet.ubc.ca * Corresponding author Published: 10 November 2005 Received: 20 July 2005 Accepted: 10 November 2005 Harm Reduction Journal 2005, 2:24 doi:10.1186/1477-7517-2-24 This article is available from: /content/2/1/24 ? 2005 Lloyd-Smith et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Recent studies have indicated that injection-related infections such as abscesses and cellulitis account for the majority of emergency room visits and acute hospitalizations accrued by local injection drug users. The objective of this analysis was to examine the prevalence and correlates of developing an abscess among a cohort of injection drug users in Vancouver and to identify socio- demographic and drug use variables associated with abscesses at baseline. We examined abscesses among participants enrolled in a prospective cohort of injection drug users. Categorical variables wer