Login / Signup

Implementation and maintenance of an emergency department naloxone distribution and peer recovery specialist program.

Brendan P JackaHannah N ZiobrowskiAlexis LawrenceJanette BairdAnna E WentzBrandon D L MarshallRachel S WightmanMichael J MelloFrancesca L BeaudoinElizabeth A Samuels
Published in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2021)
ED naloxone distribution, behavioral counseling, and referral to treatment can be successfully integrated into usual emergency care and maintained over time with high reach and adoption. Further work is needed to identify low-cost implementation strategies to improve services use and dissemination across clinical settings.
Keyphrases
  • emergency department
  • healthcare
  • quality improvement
  • primary care
  • low cost
  • palliative care
  • public health
  • electronic health record
  • mental health
  • smoking cessation
  • affordable care act
  • antiretroviral therapy