Unequal access to opioid agonist treatment and sterile injecting equipment among hospitalized patients with injection drug use-associated infective endocarditis

• Thomas D. Brothers ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: thomas.brothers.20@ucl.ac.uk

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, UCL Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Heath, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5570-5556

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• Kimiko Mosseler,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Dalhousie University, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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• Susan Kirkland,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Department of Community Health & Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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• Patti Melanson †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mobile Outreach Street Health (MOSH), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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• Lisa Barrett,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Division of Infectious Diseases, Nova Scotia Health, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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• Duncan Webster

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Division of Infectious Diseases, Saint John Regional Hospital and Dalhousie University, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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