Racial disparities in the treatment of acute overdose in the emergency department

Racial and ethnic disparities in the United States continue to exist in many disciplines of medicine, extending to care in the Emergency Department (ED). We sought to examine the relationship between patient race/ethnicity and use of either antidotal therapy or gastrointestinal decontamination for individuals presenting to the ED for acute drug overdose.We completed a secondary analysis of a prospective cohort of patients with suspected acute...