Table 1.
Acute/subacute hospital-treated somatic disease incidents: incidence rates and rates of inpatient days and outpatient treatment contacts per 100 patient-years
| OMT status |
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| Before | During | After* | |
| Incidence rates | |||
| All acute/subacute incidents | 60.5 | 38.1 | 113.0 |
| All drug-related incidents | 31.9 | 7.5 | 75.7 |
| Overdoses | 10.4 | 3.7 | 20.8 |
| Injecting-related, total** | 14.2 | 2.4 | 34.0 |
| Deep venous thrombosis/lung embolism | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.1 |
| Acute hepatitis B and C | 0.9 | 0.1 | 1.1 |
| Local bacterial infections | 8.5 | 1.5 | 19.7 |
| Systemic bacterial infections | 3.3 | 0.5 | 11.0 |
| Other | 0.9 | 0.1 | 1.1 |
| Other drug-related, total** | 7.3 | 1.4 | 20.8 |
| Withdrawal-related | 2.7 | 0.5 | 4.4 |
| Impaired general condition | 1.4 | 0.2 | 7.7 |
| Neuromuscular | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.1 |
| Other | 2.7 | 0.6 | 7.7 |
| All non-drug-related incidents | 12.4 | 16.7 | 21.9 |
| Infections | 3.7 | 4.7 | 11.0 |
| Other | 8.7 | 12.1 | 11.0 |
| Injuries | 16.2 | 13.9 | 15.4 |
| Treatment contact rates | |||
| Inpatient days per 100 patient-years | 150.7 | 92.4 | 472.8 |
| Drug-related | 86.9 | 13.9 | 331.3 |
| Non-drug-related | 31.7 | 62.9 | 69.1 |
| Injuries | 32.1 | 15.6 | 72.4 |
| Outpatient contacts per 100 patient-years | 56.4 | 41.4 | 107.5 |
| Drug-related | 22.9 | 4.8 | 49.4 |
| Non-drug-related | 12.1 | 16.9 | 26.3 |
| Injuries | 21.4 | 19.8 | 31.8 |
The rates before and during OMT refer to all patients, while the rates after OMT refer exclusively to patients with interrupted OMT. Patient-years at risk: 1000 before, 813 during and 91 after OMT. Number of incidents: 605 before, 310 during and 106 after OMT.
*
After OMT is defined as time out of treatment (one or more consecutive periods) after first admittance to OMT, that is the sum of the time between treatment periods and time after the last treatment period.
**
Subgroups in italic.
OMT, opioid maintenance treatment.