Group topic: Overdose and the Impact on Health Care
Focus question: In patients with opioid-related hospital stays, how does opioid-related spending compared to other hospital-stay visits, affects the hospital financially and interfere with patient’s outcome?
Significance of the Problem:
The impact of the overdose problem on patient outcomes highlights its significance.
Overdose-related deaths and disabilities significantly impact mortality and morbidity rates
among drug users. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 2021 drug
overdoses resulted in an estimated 107,622 fatalities in the United States, with opioids being the
leading cause of such occurrences (CDC, 2022). As mentioned above, the statistic underscores
the pressing necessity for efficacious interventions and healthcare strategies to mitigate the
incidence and aftermath of overdose.
Moreover, the crisis of opioid overdose has implications that extend beyond national
borders. Research has identified three distinct groupings of overdose prevalence on a global
scale. The initial cluster comprises nations helmed by the United States, which have exhibited
historically elevated levels of opioid overdose. The countries within the second cluster indicate a
rising trend in overdose rates that falls within a worrisome range. According to Krausz et al.
(2021), the third cluster is composed of nations that exhibit notably low overdose rates. The
discoveries mentioned above underscore that overdose is not confined to particular geographical
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