Exploring care of hospital inpatients with substance involvement.

Introduction: This article presents demographic and care factors related to persons who are substance-involved and require inpatient administration of intravenous antibiotics.

Purpose: This study was conducted to explore healthcare responses to support substance-involved inpatients, through exploration of documented client outcomes, healthcare provider accounts, and representation of clients through documentation.

Method(s): A patient-oriented research team undertook this multiple methods, exploratory study.