Sentences with phrase «nonfatal overdose»
The data showed 91 percent of patients continued to be prescribed opioids after the nonfatal overdose.
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Several ways to potentially improve notification of treated nonfatal overdose would be provide a seamless communication stream between emergency and / or hospital providers and outpatient providers.
«Most patients still prescribed opioids after nonfatal overdose, study finds.»
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Utilizing Optum, a large national commercial insurance claims database with data on 50 million individuals over a 12 year period, the researchers identified nearly 3,000 individuals who were prescribed opioids for chronic pain that had been treated in the emergency department and / or as an inpatient following a nonfatal opioid overdose.