Article
An inhomogeneous Poisson model of the spatial intensity of opioid overdoses, as represented by EMS naloxone use
2019-01-26
Abstract excerpt
1 From 1999 to 2017, the age-adjusted annual death rate in the United States from opioid overdose has increased several-fold, to about 18.3 per 100,000 population. The federal government has declared opioid overdose a public health emergency. Spatially-aware analyses and surveillance may contribute to control of this growing problem. As naloxone has only one clinical use—the treatment of opioid overdose—its admini...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f6ea191c-ff04-58ad-8adb-0a3828113dcd
- DOI
- 10.1101/529206
