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. 2023 Feb 16;329(9):761–763. doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.0169

Table. Number of State and District Governments That Publish Data on Local Responses to Suspected Drug Overdose by Reviewed Characteristicsa.

Characteristics Prehospital care setting Hospital care setting
First responder Other community setting ED visit Inpatient Other
State publishes data type
Yes 34 15 45 22 7
No 17 36 6 29 44
Drug typeb
Any drug 21 6 33 16 4
Opioids 19 10 39 22 7
Other nonopioids 2 3 23 13 3
Naloxone delivery
Yes 30 10 0 0 0
No 4 5 45 22 7
Drug involvementb
Suspected 27 9 23 1 0
Clinical impression 7 6 22 21 7
Toxicologic confirmation 0 0 3 1 1
Specified as nonfatal
Yes 16 7 22 12 4
No 18 8 23 10 3
Reporting characteristics
Static report (most recent year)
2022 7 2 11 0 1
2021 6 3 5 4 0
2020 5 3 3 2 1
2019 or prior 5 0 9 5 2
No static reports 11 7 17 11 3
Interactive dashboard (most recent year)
2022 11 2 11 1 0
2021 4 5 8 4 0
2020 4 1 8 5 4
2019 or prior 2 1 7 6 1
No dashboard 13 6 11 6 2
Real-time data reporting
Yes 3 1 2 1 0
No 31 14 43 21 7
Available stratifications
Demographicsb
Age 16 2 34 17 4
Race 4 1 22 15 1
Ethnicity 3 1 15 9 0
Sex 14 2 31 16 3
Geographic granularity
State 11 8 8 4 0
Public health region 1 0 1 1 0
County/parish 18 7 33 16 5
City, zip code, neighborhood, or geographic coordinates 4 0 3 1 2

Abbreviation: ED, emergency department.

a

Among states publishing any type of data, 9 reported performing any deduplication efforts to capture unique overdose events and 1 state reported performing deduplication efforts across the prehospital and within-hospital care settings

b

Counts are not mutually exclusive within this data characteristic. Other community responses include responses by poison control centers or naloxone administrations delivered by a community grant program, layperson, or bystander prior to emergency medical services responding. The other health care setting group includes drug overdoses that resulted in health care utilization more broadly, such as aggregate counts of hospitalizations (ED and inpatient) or Medicaid claims. Geographic granularity was based on the most granular unit published by states. Real-time data reporting was defined as publication of data within 2 weeks of the overdose.