The effect of Montreal's supervised consumption sites on injection-related infections among people who inject drugs: An interrupted time series.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Between June and November 2017, four supervised consumption sites (SCS) began operating in Montreal, Quebec. Earlier studies on SCS focused on examining their effects on blood-borne viral infections and overdose mortality. Our objective was to examine the effect of Montreal's SCS on the incidence, health service use and outcomes of injection-related infections (IRI) in people who inject drugs.

Methods

We used Quebec's provincial administrative health data to identify people who inject drugs in Montreal and calculated the incidence of IRI in this population between December 2014 and December 2019. We conducted a retrospective, population-based interrupted time series to estimate the effect of Montreal's four SCS on the monthly incidence rates of IRI-related hospita

SUBMITTER: Lim J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11349102 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature