Emergency care utilization in persons with substance related diagnoses
Wayne Kepner, Natasia S. Courchesne-Krak, Nora Satybaldiyeva, Rekha Narasimhan, Carla B. Marienfeld · 2024
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Description
Wayne Kepner and four co-authors map emergency department use by people with substance-related diagnoses, in a 2024 study. These patients are heavy users of emergency care, but the patterns by substance and social profile were poorly charted. The team mined records from a large California health system.
Among over three hundred forty thousand adults seen between 2012 and 2019, about five percent carried a substance diagnosis. Those patients used emergency care at markedly higher rates. Alcohol diagnoses topped the list, with nearly four times the adjusted odds of an emergency visit, followed closely by opioids and stimulants. Patients with such diagnoses were more often male, Black or Hispanic, and uninsured. The numbers argue for meeting addiction care where these patients already appear: the emergency department.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Wayne Kepner, Natasia S. Courchesne-Krak, Nora Satybaldiyeva, Rekha Narasimhan, Carla B. Marienfeld |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |