Trend of emergency department substance overdose during coronavirus pandemic: Comments on a previous publication

Quincy K Tran¹, Tucker Lurie², Rose Chasm³, Jeffrey Rea⁴, Daniel J Haase⁵

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¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 110 South Paca Street, 6th Floor, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; Program in Trauma, The R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 22 South Greene Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. Electronic address: qtran@som.umaryland.edu.
² Wellspan York Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine, 1001 South George Street, York, PA 17403, USA. Electronic address: tlurie@wellspan.org.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 110 South Paca Street, 6th Floor, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. Electronic address: Rchasm@som.umaryland.edu.
⁴ Program in Trauma, The R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 22 South Greene Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. Electronic address: jrea@umm.edu.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 110 South Paca Street, 6th Floor, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; Program in Trauma, The R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 22 South Greene Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. Electronic address: Dhaase@som.umaryland.edu.

PMID: 34906388
PMCID: PMC8665654
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2021.12.002

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Trend of emergency department substance overdose during coronavirus pandemic: Comments on a previous publication

Quincy K Tran et al. Am J Emerg Med. 2022 Jul.

. 2022 Jul:57:170-171.

doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2021.12.002. Epub 2021 Dec 7.

Authors

Quincy K Tran¹, Tucker Lurie², Rose Chasm³, Jeffrey Rea⁴, Daniel J Haase⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 110 South Paca Street, 6th Floor, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; Program in Trauma, The R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 22 South Greene Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. Electronic address: qtran@som.umaryland.edu.
² Wellspan York Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine, 1001 South George Street, York, PA 17403, USA. Electronic address: tlurie@wellspan.org.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 110 South Paca Street, 6th Floor, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. Electronic address: Rchasm@som.umaryland.edu.
⁴ Program in Trauma, The R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 22 South Greene Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. Electronic address: jrea@umm.edu.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 110 South Paca Street, 6th Floor, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; Program in Trauma, The R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 22 South Greene Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. Electronic address: Dhaase@som.umaryland.edu.

PMID: 34906388
PMCID: PMC8665654
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2021.12.002

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Declaration of Competing Interest This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

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**Fig. 1**
Interrupted time series analysis assessing the trend of patients who presented to the emergency departments with overdose. The weekly overdose number before (January 01, 2019 – April 11, 2020) and after (April 19, 2020 – September 30, 2020) relief checks were sent were compared.

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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on emergency department substance use screens and overdose presentations.
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