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    "pk": 17358,
    "title": "Disparities in Emergency Department Naloxone and Buprenorphine Initiation",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Introduction: \nPrescribing of buprenorphine and naloxone in the emergency department (ED) has been shown to be an effective intervention. The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of prescribing of naloxone and buprenorphine and the sub-groups that may be more or less likely to receive treatment.\nMethods:\nWe used a national electronic health record database to identify patients with opioid poisoning or overdose presenting between January 2019–December 2021. Patients who were prescribed naloxone or buprenorphine were identified in this dataset and then further segmented based on selfidentified gender, age, racial and ethnic identity, income categories, and social vulnerability index in order to identify sub-groups that may be less likely to be prescribed treatment.\nResults: \nWe found 74,004 patients in the database whom we identified as presenting to the ED with an opioid poisoning or overdose. Overall, 22.8% were discharged with a prescription for naloxone, while 0.9% of patients were discharged with buprenorphine products. Patients were less likely to receive naloxone prescriptions if they were female, White or Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic, not between the ages of 18–65, and non-English speaking. We found the same pattern for buprenorphine prescriptions except that the results were not significant for ethnicity and English-speaking.\nConclusion: \nDespite evidence supporting its use, buprenorphine is not prescribed from the ED in a substantial proportion of patients. Naloxone is prescribed to a higher percentage, although still a minority of patients receive it. Some sub-groups are disadvantaged in the prescribing of these products. Further study may assist in improving the prescribing of these therapies.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "naloxone"
        },
        {
            "word": "buprenorphine"
        },
        {
            "word": "disparities"
        },
        {
            "word": "emergency department"
        },
        {
            "word": "MOUD"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Behavioral Health",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/29t7788m",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Joan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Papp",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The  Metro Health Campus of Case Western Reserve University",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Charles",
            "middle_name": "Louis",
            "last_name": "Emerman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "MetroHealth Campus of Case Western Reserve University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2022-08-27T09:40:37-07:00",
    "date_accepted": "2022-08-27T09:40:37-07:00",
    "date_published": "2023-06-30T13:52:27-07:00",
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}