Hospital utilization for injection drug use-related soft tissue infections in urban versus rural counties in California

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• hospital 70%
• infection 68%
• county 65%
• drug 59%
• tissue 52%
• inner city 16%
• urban area 10%
• health care 6%
• expenditure 6%
• code 5%
• safety 4%
• health 4%
• planning 4%
• program 3%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Drug Utilization 100%
• Soft Tissue Infections 88%
• Injections 42%
• Pharmaceutical Preparations 20%
• International Classification of Diseases 16%
• Substance-Related Disorders 14%
• Safety-net Providers 12%
• Harm Reduction 10%
• Health Planning 10%
• Medicaid 9%
• Opiate Alkaloids 8%
• Poverty 8%
• Health Expenditures 8%
• Delivery of Health Care 4%
• Databases 4%
• Therapeutics 1%

Social Sciences

• drug use 64%
• utilization 58%
• drug 49%
• urban area 14%
• health planning 10%
• drug dependence 9%
• expenditures 7%
• abuse 6%
• health care 5%
• resident 5%