Incidence and correlates of opioid-related psychiatric emergency care: A retrospective, multiyear cohort study.
CONCLUSION: EDs are serving increasing numbers of patients in psychiatric crisis related to opioid-use. A decision support tool could be developed and validated in the future to provide reliable, clinically relevant information to providers and case managers relevant to opioid-related ED presentations.
PMID: 32421844 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of Opioid Management - Category: Addiction Tags: J Opioid Manag Source Type: research
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