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Study flow diagram. After the initial exclusion of patients without an overdose event, there were 18,734 patients who had an opioid overdose event. After further exclusions including continuous Veterans Health Administration (VA) enrollment, hospice care receipt, missing or other race/ethnicity, and death within 7 days, the final cohort of patients with non-fatal opioid overdose was 16,210.
