ArticleAnnals of epidemiology2015
Emergency department utilization and subsequent prescription drug overdose death.
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- Designing a Substance Misuse Data Dashboard for Overdose Fatality Review Teams: User-Centered Design Approach.JMIR human factors · 2026Article
- Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics associated with overdose among patients with a substance-related diagnosis in the emergency department of Southern California.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- Development of a Real-Time Dashboard for Overdose Touchpoints: User-Centered Design Approach.JMIR human factors · 2024Article
- Characteristics of Patients Presenting at an Emergency Department for a Heroin Overdose vs Detoxification.Substance abuse and rehabilitation · 2024Article
- A qualitative study of emergency department patients who survived an opioid overdose: Perspectives on treatment and unmet needs.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2021Article
- Mortality Following Nonfatal Opioid and Sedative/Hypnotic Drug Overdose.American journal of preventive medicine · 2020Article
- Predictors of Overdose Death Among High-Risk Emergency Department Patients With Substance-Related Encounters: A Data Linkage Cohort Study.Annals of emergency medicine · 2020Article
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- Touchpoints - Opportunities to predict and prevent opioid overdose: A cohort study.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2019Article
- Patient characteristics associated with being offered take home naloxone in a busy, urban emergency department: a retrospective chart review.BMC health services research · 2019Article
- Prescription-, Illicit-, and Self-Harm Opioid Overdose Cases Treated in Hospital.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2018Article
- Risk markers for fatal and non-fatal prescription drug overdose: a meta-analysis.Injury epidemiology · 2017Review
- Response to Letter to the Editor.Annals of epidemiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
purposePrescription drug overdose (PDO) deaths are a critical public health problem in the United States. This study aims to assess the association between emergency department (ED) utilization patterns in a cohort of ED patients and the risk of subsequent unintentional PDO mortality.
methodsUsing data from the New York Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System for 2006-2010, a nested case-control design was used to examine the relationship between ED utilization patterns in New York State residents of age 18-64 years and subsequent PDO death.
resultsThe study sample consisted of 2732 case patients who died of PDO and 2732 control ED patients who were selected through incidence density sampling. With adjustment for demographic characteristics, and diagnoses of pain, substance abuse, and psychiatric disorders, the estimated odds ratios of PDO death relative to one ED visit or less in the previous year were 4.90 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.50-5.34) for those with two ED visits, 16.61 (95% CI: 14.72-18.75) for those with three ED visits, and 48.24 (95% CI: 43.23-53.83) for those with four ED visits or more.
conclusionsFrequency of ED visits is strongly associated with the risk of subsequent PDO death. Intervention programs targeting frequent ED users are warranted to reduce PDO mortality.
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