Healthcare costs and use before and after opioid overdose in Veterans Health Administration patients with opioid use disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To compare healthcare costs and use between United States (US) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) who experienced an opioid overdose (OD cohort) and patients with OUD who did not experience an opioid overdose (non-OD cohort).

Design

This is a retrospective cohort study of administrative and clinical data.

Setting

The largest integrated national health-care system is the US Veterans Health Administration's healthcare systems.

Participants

We included VHA patients diagnosed with OUD from October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. We identified the index date of overdose for patients who had an overdose. Our control group, which included patients with OUD who did not have an overdose, was randomly assigned an index d

SUBMITTER: Joyce VR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11680310 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature