ArticleSubstance use & misuse2018
Emergency Department Visits in a Cohort of Persons with Substance Use: Incorporating the Role of Social Networks.
Article in Substance use & misuse, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- What Brings You in Today? Sex, Race, Substance Type, and Other Sociodemographic and Health-Related Characteristics Predict if Substance Use is the Main Reason for a Clinical Encounter.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2023Article
- Awareness, perception and utilization of a mobile health clinic by people who use drugs.Annals of medicine · 2022Article
- Social determinants of health and emergency department utilization among adults receiving buprenorphine for opioid use disorder.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2022Article
- Network-based recruitment of people who inject drugs for hepatitis C testing and linkage to care.Journal of viral hepatitis · 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
- Statistical tools used for analyses of frequent users of emergency department: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundFrequent emergency department (ED) visits often suggest inappropriate use for low acuity needs and multiple comorbidities, including substance use disorders.
objectiveThis study examines associations of individuals and their social networks with high frequency ED use among persons reporting substance use.
methodsInformation was obtained from interview responses from the first 6-month follow-up visit of a longitudinal. Prevalence ratios for the outcome of high frequency ED visits (≥2 in 6 months) were determined with a generalized linear model, log link, Poisson distribution and robust standard errors.
resultsOf 653 participants, 131 (20%) had ≥2 ED visits. In multivariable analysis, greater likelihood of high frequency ED visits over 6 months was associated with being homeless (PR: 1.58; 95% CI: 1.19, 2.10), taking ≥3 medications (PR: 1.58; 95% CI: 1.19, 2.10) and having had a hospitalization over the same period (PR: 4.33; 95% CI: 3.26, 7.56). Among social network factors, lower likelihood of high frequency visits was associated with each increasing year of mean alter age (PR: 0.98; 95% CI: 0.6, 0.99) and greater likelihood with having received health-related informational support from ≥2 alters (PR: 1.62; 95% CI: 1.04, 2.53). Conclusions/Importance: Social network factors may play an important role in ED use. Interventions to promote health behaviors through social influence may be helpful in reducing high frequency ED visits.
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