title: Treating drug users in hospital wards.
abstract: It seems likely that hospital wards will be admitting an increasing number of intravenous drug users over the coming year. Hal Satterthwaite offers hospital services a system of response to the needs of this population, based on a maintenance contract with individual patients. He argues that such contracts should be instigated as soon as is feasible after admission of the patient onto the ward.
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Satterthwaite
mesh_terms: D002985:Clinical Protocols; D006801:Humans; D010343:Patient Admission; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010358:Patient Participation; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000451:nursing* / Q000628:therapy