Surviving traumatic injury, only to die of acute drug poisoning: Should trauma centers be a path for intervention?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although death from drug overdose is a leading cause of injury-related death in the United States, its incidence after traumatic incident is unknown. Moreover, little is known about related risk factors. We sought to determine the incidence and characteristics of and risk factors for trauma patients suffering death by acute drug poisoning ("overdose") after hospitalization for a traumatic incident.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective chart review of all admitted trauma patients ≥18 y of age at the only level-1 trauma center in our region from 2012 to 2019, matched with unintentional overdose decedents from the California death registry. We assessed associations between demographic and clinical characteristics with risk of overdose death, using cumulative incidenc

SUBMITTER: Bongiovanni T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11637652 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature