Clinical and investigative medicine. Médecine clinique et experimentale
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Modified Duke criteria were applied to consecutive injection drug users (IDUs) who were admitted to an inner-city hospital with a clinical suspicion of infective endocarditis, and the presence of any other clinical variables that were predictive of the presence of infective endocarditis was determined. ⋯ Among IDUs, the modified Duke criteria are useful for classifying cases with definite infective endocarditis and rejecting cases without infective endocarditis. The classification of possible infective endocarditis is suitable for this population.