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ArticlePrehospital emergency care

Opportunities for Emergency Medical Services Intervention to Prevent Opioid Overdose Mortality.

Elizabeth H Barefoot, Julianne M Cyr, Jane H Brice, Michael W Bachman, Jefferson G Williams, Jose G Cabanas, Kyle M Herbert

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Article in Prehospital emergency care. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Locations of emergency medical services attended non-fatal opioid-involved overdoses, 888 counties, USA, 2022-2024.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2026
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  5. Epidemiology of 911 Calls for Opioid Overdose in Nogales, Arizona.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2025
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  9. Implementation of an EMS-based naloxone distribution program: A qualitative evaluation.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elizabeth H Barefoot
Julianne M Cyr
Jane H Brice
Michael W Bachman
Jefferson G Williams
Jose G Cabanas
Kyle M Herbert
Schlumberger (Ireland) · IE

Funding

UNC-CH ISTEM ProgramT35HL134624 · NHLBI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Jane Brice, Michelle Meyer · 2017 to 2026
$347k
NHLBI NIH HHS T35 HL134624
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThe opioid crisis is a growing cause of mortality in the United States and may be mitigated by innovative approaches to identifying individuals at-risk of fatal opioid overdose. We examined Emergency Medical Services (EMS) utilization among a cohort of individuals who died from opioid overdose in order to identify potential opportunities for intervention.

Indexed as

Drug OverdoseEmergency Medical ServicesOpiate OverdosePharmaceutical PreparationsAdultAgedAnalgesics, OpioidFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNaloxoneNorth CarolinaRetrospective StudiesUnited StatesYoung AdultAnalgesics, OpioidNaloxonePharmaceutical Preparationsdelivery of health careemergency medical servicesmortalityopioid-related disorders

Identifiers

PMID32176548
PMCPMC7529698
OpenAlexW3011212444

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