Death after emergency department visits for opioid overdose in British Columbia: a retrospective cohort analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Visits to the emergency department are critical opportunities to engage individuals after an overdose. We sought to estimate and compare the 12-month mortality between persons with visits to the emergency department related to opioid overdose and those with non-overdose-related visits.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the Provincial Overdose Cohort, which contains data for patients in British Columbia who had an opioid-related overdose between 2015 and 2017, along with a 20% random sample of BC residents for comparison. We examined all nonfatal visits to the emergency department between Jan. 1, 2015, and Dec. 31, 2016, among persons aged 14 to 74 years and compared the 12-month mortality between those with overdose-related visits and those w

SUBMITTER: Moe J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8096380 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature