Feb 7 2024, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Virtual or In-Person at Hurlburt Auditorium, St. Paul’s Hospital,1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C.
In British Columbia, six people a day die of opioid overdose. Because people who use opioids seek care in emergency departments (EDs), EDs offer services that can improve survival: EDs provide kits to reverse opioid overdoses; start people on medications for opioid addiction; and link people to community care. Several B.C. health authorities have started programs to improve ED care of people who use opioids. We do not know how often EDs deliver these services and if they reduce death.
This presentation will discuss the development of tools to monitor and evaluate the current implementation of emergency department interventions for opioid use disorder in Vancouver, and the facilitation of similar evaluations across B.C. and Canada.