Predicting Mortality Risk After a Hospital or Emergency Department Visit for Nonfatal Opioid Overdose.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Survivors of opioid overdose have substantially increased mortality risk, although this risk is not evenly distributed across individuals. No study has focused on predicting an individual's risk of death after a nonfatal opioid overdose.

Objective

To predict risk of death after a nonfatal opioid overdose.

Design and participants

This retrospective cohort study included 9686 Pennsylvania Medicaid beneficiaries with an emergency department or inpatient claim for nonfatal opioid overdose in 2014-2016. The index date was the first overdose claim during this period.

Exposures, main outcome, and measures

Predictor candidates were measured in the 180 days before the index overdose. Primary outcome was 180-day all-cause mortality. Using a gradient boosting m

SUBMITTER: Guo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8041978 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature