Trends and regional variation in opioid overdose mortality among veterans health administration patients, fiscal year 2001 to 2009

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 605-612

  Bohnert, Amy S B ^a,b   Ilgen, Mark A ^a,b   Trafton, Jodie A ^c,d   Kerns, Robert D ^e,f   Eisenberg, Anna ^a,b   Ganoczy, Dara ^a   Blow, Frederic C ^a,b  

^a National Serious Mental Illness Treatment Resource Evaluation Center VA Center for Clinical Management Research   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c VA Program Evaluation and Resource Center   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Pain Research Medical Comorbidities and Education Center   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

opioids; overdose; regional variation; trends

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; BUTORPHANOL; CODEINE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DIHYDROCODEINE; FENTANYL; HYDROCODONE; HYDROMORPHONE; METHADONE; MORPHINE; NALBUPHINE; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; OXYMORPHONE; PENTAZOCINE; PETHIDINE; TRAMADOL; PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG OVERDOSE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; VETERANS HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; MALE; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PATIENT CARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG OVERDOSE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PATIENT CARE; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS HEALTH;

EID: 84902265303     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: 15365409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0000000000000011     Document Type: Article

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