ReviewJournal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open2024
Peer support for patients with opioid use disorder in the emergency department: A narrative review.
Review in Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- 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
- Community-informed design of personalized patient-facing materials to facilitate ED-initiated treatment of opioid use disorder.PEC innovation · 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 facilitation improves readiness for emergency department-initiated buprenorphine to treat opioid use disorder.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2025Article
- Advocacy and the Opioid Epidemic: Positioning Providers to Influence Policy and Improve Public Health.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2025Article
- Physician perspectives on reducing harm and supporting emergency department patients who use drugs.PloS one · 2025Article
- 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
- HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Service Delivery Models for Emergency Departments: A Qualitative Study.Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS CareArticle
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Authors and funding
8 authors.
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Abstract
Faced with a growing opioid overdose crisis, emergency departments (EDs) are increasingly hiring peers-people with lived experiences of addiction and recovery-to work with patients in the ED who have opioid use disorders (OUDs) or who have experienced an opioid overdose. Despite a clear need for more support for patients with OUD and rapid expansion in grant funding for peer programs, there are limited data on how these programs affect clinical outcomes and how they are best implemented within the ED. In this narrative review, we synthesize the existing evidence on how to develop and implement peer programs for OUD in the ED setting. We describe the key activities peers can undertake in the ED, outline requirements of the peer role and best practices for peer supervision and hiring, detail how ED administrators have built financial and political support for peer programs, and summarize the limited evidence on clinical and care linkage outcomes of peer programs. We highlight key resources that ED clinicians and administrators can use to develop peer programs and key areas where additional research is needed.
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