Assessment of Patient-Reported Naloxone Acquisition and Carrying With an Automated Text Messaging System After Emergency Department Discharge in Philadelphia.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

A central tenet of harm reduction and prevention of opioid overdose deaths is the distribution and use of naloxone. Patient-centered methods that investigate naloxone acquisition and carrying can guide opioid overdose education and naloxone distribution efforts.

Objective

To assess patients' self-reported naloxone acquisition and carrying after an emergency department (ED) encounter using automated text messaging.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study investigated self-reported patient behaviors involving naloxone after ED discharge in a large, urban academic health system in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Adult patients who were prescribed or dispensed naloxone and who had a mobile phone number listed in the electronic health record provided inf

SUBMITTER: Agarwal AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8948533 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature