Racial, ethnic, and sex disparities in buprenorphine treatment from emergency departments by discharge diagnosis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Racial and sex disparities are noted in the administration and prescribing of buprenorphine from emergency departments (EDs) nationally. It is unknown whether disparities persist when accounting for the specific discharge diagnosis addressed during encounters such as opioid overdose or withdrawal.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of opioid-related ED encounters from January 2020 through December 2023 using a national database, Epic Cosmos. We analyzed the effect of opioid encounter subtype-overdose or withdrawal-on receipt of buprenorphine using multivariable logistic regression adjusting for demographics and measured confounding variables. Encounter subtypes were defined by diagnosis codes and buprenorphine receipt was defined as administration or

SUBMITTER: Chhabra N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12353228 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature