A Single-Centre Canadian Cost Analysis for the Care and Management of Injection Drug Use-Associated Infective Endocarditis Requiring Cardiac Surgery
Patients diagnosed with IDU-IE who have cardiac surgery have higher per-patient cost than the general cardiac surgery population, as shown by comparison to other available data. This specific patient population has unique care needs that should be optimized to improve patient outcomes and improve healthcare resource utilization.
Authors
- Toshiro Sembo
- Jaswinder S. Sandhu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9340-225X)
- S. Hemmati
- Tiffany Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1556-9861)
- Corey A. Adams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9263-8658)
- Karen Stevens
- Amy Brown (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-8393-5332)
- Cheryl Harten
- William Kent (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3808-0777)
- Hannah Koury
- Ali Fatehi Hassanabad (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0650-0260)
Institutions
- Alberta Health Services (CA)
- University of Ottawa (CA)
- University of Calgary (CA)
- University of Manitoba (CA)
- Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- CJC Open
- Published
- 2025-11-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjco.2025.10.016
- Primary Topic
- Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00