Healio (5/27, Michael) reports, “Just 16.6% of commercially insured patients receive follow-up care after being released from the” emergency department (ED) “for a nonfatal opioid overdose,” investigators concluded after examining “insurance claims data from a large commercial insurer in the United States from October 2011 through September 2016 to assess follow-up treatment 90 days after an ED visit for an opioid overdose.” The findings of the 6,451-patient study were published online in JAMA Network Open.
Related Links:
— “Few patients receive follow-up after opioid overdose, “Erin Michael, Healio, May 27, 2020