Publications by authors named "Rob Bossarte"

Objectives: To examine opioid-related outcomes by using hospitalization and mortality data as an indicator of the current opioid crisis in West Virginia.

Methods: We used data from the West Virginia University Medicine health care system to examine the trend in opioid overdoses and percentage of patients with a repeat overdose from 2008 to 2016. We obtained the opioid overdose death rate for the state from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention WONDER (Wide-ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research) mortality data for 2008 to 2016.

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