Medical encounters for opioid-related intoxications in Southern Nevada: sociodemographic and clinical correlates
Abstract Background:
Despite today's heightened concern over opioid overdose, the lack of population-based data examining clinical and contextual factors associated with opioid use represents a knowledge gap with relevance to prevention and treatment interventions. We sought to quantify rates of emergency department (ED) visits and inpatient hospitalizations for harmful opioid effects and their sociodemographic differentials as well as clinical correlates in Southern Nevada, using ED visit and hospital inpatient discharge records from 2011 to 2013.
Conclusions:
There were consistent patterns of disparities in healthcare utilization across sociodemographic groups for opioid-associated disorders. Further initiatives to evaluate the determinants of overdose and abuse and to implement targeted response efforts are needed.
Author:
Jing Feng, Joseph P. Iser, and Wei Yang
Resource Date:
August 30, 2016
Location:
Clark (County)
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Resource Address:
Southern Nevada Health District
280 South Decatur
Las Vegas, Nevada 89127
280 South Decatur
Las Vegas, Nevada 89127