Touchpoints - Opportunities to predict and prevent opioid overdose: A cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical care, public health, and criminal justice systems encounters could serve as touchpoints to identify and intervene with individuals at high-risk of opioid overdose death. The relative risk of opioid overdose death and proportion of deaths that could be averted at such touchpoints are unknown.

Methods

We used 8 individually linked data sets from Massachusetts government agencies to perform a retrospective cohort study of Massachusetts residents ages 11 and older. For each month in 2014, we identified past 12-month exposure to 4 opioid prescription touchpoints (high dosage, benzodiazepine co-prescribing, multiple prescribers, or multiple pharmacies) and 4 critical encounter touchpoints (opioid detoxification, nonfatal opioid overdose, injection-related infect

SUBMITTER: Larochelle MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7020606 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature