ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2021
Evaluation of an emergency department-based opioid overdose survivor intervention: Difference-in-difference analysis of electronic health record data to assess key outcomes.
Article in Drug and alcohol dependence, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07119658 (Targeting Metabolic Syndrome From the Emergency Department Through Mixed-Methods), which is not on this map. Cited by 25 papers.
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The trial behind it
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Targeting Metabolic Syndrome From the Emergency Department Through Mixed-Methods: Pilot Trial
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effect of a peer-led emergency department behavioral intervention on non-fatal opioid overdose: 18-month outcome in the Navigator randomized controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2024Trial
- Results From the POINT Pragmatic Randomized Trial: An Emergency Department-Based Peer Support Specialist Intervention to Increase Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Linkage and Reduce Recurrent Overdose.Substance use & addiction journal · 2024Trial
- Effect of a Peer-Led Behavioral Intervention for Emergency Department Patients at High Risk of Fatal Opioid Overdose: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2022Trial
- Peer Support Workers to Improve Emergency Department Care Completion Among Patients Who Use Substances: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2026Article
- Navigating Substance Use Care in the Emergency Department: A Scoping Review.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2026Review
- Pillbox and patient-oriented manual interventions to improve medication knowledge, attitudes, and practices among older adults with multimorbidity in Shanghai, China.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Emergency Department Peer Recovery Support Services for Individuals with Substance Use Disorders: A Systematic Review of Comparative Studies.Substance abuse and rehabilitation · 2026Review
- Implementation outcomes and strategies of a peer recovery coach program: findings from a qualitative assessment in the U.S. South, 2024-2025.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
- Treatment Initiation and Outcomes Associated With Receipt of Emergency Department-Based Peer Support Following Opioid Overdose.Annals of emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Peer Recovery Support Services and Recovery Coaching for Substance Use Disorder: A Systematic Review.Current addiction reports · 2025Article
- What happens after the funding ends?: A qualitative sustainability investigation of emergency department-based peer support programs implemented as part of Indiana's opioid state targeted response initiative.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2025Article
- Early-stage implementation of peer-led interventions for emergency department patients with substance use disorder: Findings from a formative qualitative evaluation.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Article
- Facilitators of and barriers to buprenorphine initiation in the emergency department: a scoping review.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2024Article
- Peer support for patients with opioid use disorder in the emergency department: A narrative review.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2024Review
- Latent class analysis of emergency department patients engaged in telehealth peer recovery support services and associations of identified classes with post-discharge outcomes.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Article
- Emergency Department Peer Support Program and Patient Outcomes After Opioid Overdose.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- The impact of polysubstance use patterns on engagement of substance use disorder treatment among emergency department patients at high risk of opioid overdose.Addictive behaviors reports · 2023Article
- Strategies to support substance use disorder care transitions from acute-care to community-based settings: a scoping review and typology.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2023Article
- "That's why we're speaking up today": exploring barriers to overdose fatality prevention in Indianapolis' Black community with semi-structured interviews.Harm reduction journal · 2023Article
- Identification of opioid use disorder using electronic health records: Beyond diagnostic codes.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn recent years, a number of emergency department (ED)-based interventions have been developed to provide supports and/or treatment linkage for people who use opioids. However, there is limited research supporting the effectiveness of the majority of these interventions. Project POINT is an ED-based intervention aimed at providing opioid overdose survivors with naloxone and recovery supports and connecting them to evidence-based medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD). An evaluation of POINT was conducted.
methodsA difference-in-difference analysis of electronic health record data was completed to understand the difference in outcomes for patients admitted to the ED when a POINT staff member was working versus times when they were not. The observation window was January 1, 2012 to July 6, 2019, which included N = 1462 unique individuals, of which 802 were in the POINT arm. Outcomes of focus include MOUD opioid prescriptions dispensed, active non-MOUD opioid prescriptions dispensed, naloxone access, and drug poisonings.
resultsThe POINT arm had a significant increase in MOUD prescriptions dispensed, non-MOUD prescriptions dispensed, and naloxone access (all p-values < 0.001). There was no significant effect related to subsequent drug poisoning-related hospital admissions.
conclusionsThe results support the assertion that POINT is meeting its two primary goals related to increasing naloxone access and connecting patients to MOUD. Generalization of these results is limited; however, the evaluation contributes to a nascent area of research and can serve a foundation for future work.
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