Open AccessRacial/Ethnic, Social, and Geographic Trends in Overdose-Associated Cardiac Arrests Observed by US Emergency Medical Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Joseph Friedman,
N. Clay Mann,
Helena Hansen,
Philippe Bourgois,
Joel T. Braslow,
Alex Bui,
Leo Beletsky,
David L. Schriger
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jama psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.531
H-Index - 365
eISSN - 2168-6238
pISSN - 2168-622X
DOI - 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2021.0967
Subject(s) - medicine , ethnic group , pandemic , emergency medical services , demography , emergency medicine , medical emergency , drug overdose , poison control , covid-19 , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , sociology , anthropology
Provisional records from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through July 2020 indicate that overdose deaths spiked during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet more recent trends are not available, and the data are not disaggregated by month of occurrence, race/ethnicity, or other social categories. In contrast, data from emergency medical services (EMS) provide a source of information nearly in real time that may be useful for rapid and more granular surveillance of overdose mortality.
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