TABLE 2.
Participant characteristics (n=30)
| Age | |
| Mean | 45 years |
| Range | 29–59 years |
| Gender | |
| Male | 16 |
| Female | 13 |
| Transgender | 1 |
| Race | |
| Aboriginal ancestry | 17 |
| Caucasian | 12 |
| African-Canadian | 1 |
| Health Status | |
| HIV-positive | 15 |
| HCV-positive | 22 |
| Housing status (prior to most recent hospitalization) | |
| Single Room Occupancy Hotel | 17 |
| Apartment | 5 |
| Emergency Shelter | 3 |
| Unhoused | 5 |
| Drug Use (thirty days prior to most recent hospitalization) | |
| Crack cocaine | 22 |
| Heroin | 18 |
| Cocaine | 12 |
| Prescription opioids | 7 |
| Reason for most recent hospitalization | |
| Injection-related infections | 8 |
| Pneumonia | 5 |
| Traumatic injury | 4 |
| Other | 13 |
| Number of hospitalizations (past five years) | |
| One | 2 |
| Two to Three | 13 |
| Four or more | 15 |