Table 4.

Discharge data for 344 hospitalizations among 216 IVDU* for treatment of infectious diseases

	n (%)
Discharge with oral antibiotics after adequate or best alternative therapy	162 (47.1)
Discharge without antibiotics after adequate or best alternative therapy	117 (34.0)
Discharge against medical advice, with oral antibiotics	29 (8.4)
Discharge against medical advice, without antibiotic therapy	13 (3.8)
Discharge without available follow-up data for antibiotic therapy	1 (0.3)
In-hospital deaths†	22 (6.4)
Total	344 (100)
Readmissions
< 30 days with relapse of original infection	13 (3.8)
with infection but not relapse of original infection	19 (5.5)
with no infection	15 (4.4)
30–90 days	53 (15.4)
> 90 days	100 (29.1)
Deaths overall (determined from state records for n = 199 patients)	49 (24.6)
After discharge from hospital: not related to treated infection	27 (13.6)
In-hospital (of cases):
infection related	18 (5.2)
not infection related	4 (1.2)

IVDU = Intravenous drug users.

* seen by an ID during a period of 5 years.

^† Described in detail in the lower part of the table.