A Demographic and Regional Comparison of Opioid-Related Hospital Visits within Community Type in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The opioid epidemic is a complex national crisis in the United States with a 400% increase in related deaths over the past two decades with no signs of slowing. The purpose of this study was to assess the incidence of opioid use, based on the geographic and population characteristics.

Methods

The opioid-related hospital inpatient stays and emergency department visits obtained from the 2010 to 2018 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project and demographic confounders, including age, race, education, and income gathered from US Census data were analyzed through generalized linear mixed models and reported by community size and region.

Results

Opioid use varies among population center sizes and the region analyzed. In general, opioid visits in the southwest regi

SUBMITTER: Wilkes JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8397219 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature