Medical diagnoses associated with substance dependence among inpatients at a large urban hospital.

There are limited data on reasons for hospital admission among patients dependent on substances other than alcohol. We compared primary discharge diagnoses for heroin- or cocaine-dependent patients to non-dependent patients.We evaluated a cohort of patients admitted to a general medicine service at...

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Main Authors: Humberto Choi, Anne Krantz, Jennifer Smith, William Trick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4479595?pdf=render