Volume 24, Number 4—April 2018
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis
Reemergence of Intravenous Drug Use as Risk Factor for Candidemia, Massachusetts, USA
Table 5
Outcomes of patients with candidemia, Massachusetts, USA, 2010–2017*
Outcome | IVDU, n = 24 | Non-IVDU, n = 174 | p value |
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Death, no. (%) patients | 5 (20.8) | 60 (34.5) | 0.247 |
Median length of hospital stay (IQR), d | 11 (17.5) | 19 (27.5) | 0.059 |
*IQR, interquartile range; IVDU, intravenous drug use.