Figure 2.

Proportion of injection drug use and non-injection drug use-associated infective endocarditis against medical advice discharges and non-AMA, live discharges by hospital day.^a,b Abbreviations: AMA, against medical advice; IDU, injection drug use; LOS, length of stay. ^aHospitalizations with a LOS above the 99th percentile were grouped as having occurred at the 99th percentile, marked by an asterisk (*) at 49 days for IDU and 50 days for non-IDU.

^bThis analysis excluded 2910 discharges with in-hospital death and 1 person with missing death data from the study cohort.