Table 1.

Characteristics of hospitalized city residents with alcohol, opioid, and/or cocaine use disorders seen by the hospital substance use disorder consultation liaison service (N=267).

	N (%)
Patient Characteristics
Age	mean= 48.6 (SD= 11.6)
Female	113 (42.3)
African American	198 (74.2)
White	65 (24.3)
Other Race	4 (1.5)
Use drugs by injection	67 (25.5)
Hospital Unit
Internal Medicine	179 (67.0)
Labor & Delivery	9 (3.4)
Shock Trauma/Intensive Care	54 (20.3)
Surgery	22 (8.2)
Other	3 (1.2)
Patient Insurance
Medicare	47 (17.6)
Medicaid	194 (72.7)
Private/Commercial	15 (5.6)
None noted	11 (4.1)
Medical Characteristics
Length of Stay at index hospitalization (days)	mean= 4.9 (SD= 6.4)2
Number of medical comorbidities listed in EHR	mean= 3.2 (SD=2.3)3
Hospitalized for one of the five Medicare-defined target conditions1	22 (8.2)
SUD Treatment
In opioid agonist treatment at hospital admission	70 (26.2)
Newly started on opioid agonist treatment in hospital	38 (14.2)
SUD Diagnoses (current)
Opioid	152 (56.9)
Cocaine	114 (42.7)
Alcohol	161 (60.3)
Rehospitalization
within 30 days	37 (13.9)
within 60 days	53 (19.9)
within 90 days	68 (25.5)
within 180 days	84 (31.5)
Main Service/Recommendation Recorded
Recommend return to SUD treatment (already enrolled)	64 (24.0)
Brief counseling at bedside	59 (22.1)
Referral to affiliated outpatient treatment program	79 (29.6)
Referral to unaffiliated treatment program	23 (8.6)
Refused consultation/no interest in treatment	26 (9.7)
Other recommendation (e.g., psychiatric)	3 (1.1)
No recommendation recorded	13 (4.9)

Note: Substance Use Disorder (SUD) diagnoses for different substances can overlap.

¹Pneumonia, acute myocardial infarction, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure, and total knee or hip anthroplasty.

²median= 3 (25^th, 75^th percentiles= 1, 6).

³median= 3 (25^th, 75^th percentiles= 1, 5).