Utilization of Emergency Department Data for Drug Overdose Surveillance in North Carolina

Authors

  • Katherine J. Harmon Injury Prevention Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
  • Scott Proescholdbell North Carolina Division of Public Health, Raleigh, NC, United States
  • Steve Marshall Injury Prevention Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
  • Anna Waller Carolina Center for Health Informatics, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5200

Abstract

The United States is in the midst of a drug overdose epidemic, primarily due to opioid analgesics. Emergency department data are an important source of morbidity data for public health surveillance. This population-based study will describe visits to North Carolina emergency departments for drug, and more specifically, opioid overdoses.

Author Biography

Katherine J. Harmon, Injury Prevention Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Katherine Harmon is a third-year injury epidemiology PhD student at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).  She has an MPH from Saint Louis University with a joint concentration in Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology. Prior to enrolling in the PhD program at UNC, Ms. Harmon was a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Applied Epidemiology Fellow at the North Carolina Division of Public Health.

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Published

2014-03-09

How to Cite

Harmon, K. J., Proescholdbell, S., Marshall, S., & Waller, A. (2014). Utilization of Emergency Department Data for Drug Overdose Surveillance in North Carolina. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5200

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