ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2021
The role of alcohol and other drugs on emergency department traumatic injury mortality in the United States.
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- Health behaviors, health, sociodemographic factors, and school success in adolescence as risk factors for injury deaths: a longitudinal study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Comparing substance-involved suicide and unintentional deaths from 2011 to 2021 in Missouri, United States.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2025Article
- Implications of using administrative healthcare data to identify risk of motor vehicle crash-related injury: the importance of distinguishing crash from crash-related injury.Injury epidemiology · 2024Article
- A cohort study examining changes in treatment patterns for alcohol use disorder among commercially insured adults in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2023Article
- Substance use and pre-hospital crash injury severity among U.S. older adults: A five-year national cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2023Article
- Integration of pharmacotherapy for alcohol use disorder treatment in primary care settings: A scoping review.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2023Article
- Mortality Risk Following Nonfatal Injuries With Alcohol Use Disorder Involvement: A One-Year Follow-Up of Emergency Department Patients Using Linked Administrative Data.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2022Article
- Stimulant drug misuse in patients presenting to level 1 trauma centres: a retrospective analysis of 80 000 patients in Canada and the United States.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgieArticle
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Abstract
backgroundAlcohol and other drugs (AOD) increase the risk of traumatic injury occurring, but data suggest a protective benefit in preventing trauma-related mortality. The objective of this study is to describe the epidemiology of AOD-related traumatic injury in the US over a recent 7 year period and assess the interaction of traumatic injury and AOD on pre-admission fatality on both an additive scale using incidence contrasts and on a statistical multiplicative scale using survey-adjusted logistic regression.
methodsUsing the National Emergency Department Sample (NEDS), we describe the epidemiology of alcohol and substance-related emergency department traumatic injury over a recent period. AOD-related injury was assessed using survey-adjusted counts and means. Ratio estimates and differences were calculated using simulations based on survey-adjusted counts and standard errors. Differences in trends over time were evaluated by comparing the slopes of linear regression equations with year as the predictor variable.
resultsAlcohol and substance-related emergency department injury discharges increased 9.8 % during the study period. There was a statistically significant interaction between traumatic injury death and AOD on both an additive scale and multiplicative scale. (Odds Ratio for interaction term = 1.76, 95 % CI = 1.53, 2.03).
conclusionsAOD use does not provide a protective benefit in the setting of trauma, but rather is an important contributor to traumatic injury mortality.
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