Mortality Among Veterans With Opioid Use Disorder After Medical Hospitalization

Michael A Incze; Sophia Huebler; Jacob D Baylis; Andrea Stofko; A Taylor Kelley; Ingrid A Binswanger; Adam J Gordon

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.0356

Mortality Among Veterans With Opioid Use Disorder After Medical Hospitalization

JAMA Intern Med. 2025 Jun 1;185(6):734-736. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.0356.

Authors

Michael A Incze^{1

2

3}, Sophia Huebler^{2

4}, Jacob D Baylis^{2

4}, Andrea Stofko², A Taylor Kelley^{1

5}, Ingrid A Binswanger^{6

7

8

9}, Adam J Gordon^{2

5}

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City.
² Program of Addiction Research, Clinical Care, Knowledge, and Advocacy, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City.
³ Clinical Review and Education Editor, JAMA Internal Medicine.
⁴ Intermountain Healthcare Department of Population Health Sciences, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
⁵ Informatics, Decision-Enhancement, and Analytic Sciences Center, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, Utah.
⁶ Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Aurora.
⁷ Colorado Permanente Medical Group, Denver.
⁸ Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora.
⁹ Department of Health Systems Science, Bernard J. Tyson Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine, Pasadena, California.

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Plain language summary

This cohort study estimates the risk of opioid-related and all-cause mortality during prespecified time periods after hospital discharge among US veterans with opioid use disorder.

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