Table 1.

Emergency medicine work domains and associated quality indicators: 3 domains of ED clinical care, clinical examples with associated quality care indicators, and opioid use disorder corollaries.

Emergency Department Work Domain	Clinical Example	Emergency Care Quality Indicators	Application to OUD
Time-sensitive treatment and stabilization	Acute myocardial infarction	Door-to-balloon time	Overdose reversal and clinical stabilization Treatment of severe withdrawal
	Stroke	Door-to-needle time Door-to-CT time
	Sepsis	Initial sepsis bundle compliance
	Trauma	Appropriate head CT use Protocolized trauma care
Acute diagnostic center	Chest pain	Timely ECG and cardiac biomarkers	Assessment of undifferentiated altered mental status
	Abdominal pain	hCG testing in women	Identification of OUD
	Headache	Appropriate head CT use
	Interpersonal violence	Intimate partner violence screening	Treatment of opioid withdrawal
	Sexual assault	Sexual assault nurse examiner evaluation
	STI testing	STI testing and treatment
Health care access and treatment linkage	Diabetes	Initiation of antihyperglycemics
	Hypertension	Home medication adjustment	Referral to OUD treatment
	Early pregnancy	Linkage to reproductive health care provider
	Tobacco use	Provision of smoking cessation resources	Harm reduction (naloxone,
	Suicidal ideation	Linkage to psychiatric services	overdose education, syringe access)
	Child and elder abuse	Mandatory reporting

hCG; Human chorionic gonadotropin; OUD, opioid use disorder.