Occurrence of Stigmatizing Documentation Among Hospital Medicine Encounters With Opioid-Related Diagnosis Codes: Cohort Study
Among hospital medicine encounters with an opioid-related diagnosis, stigmatizing language by physicians in clinical documentation was common and independently associated with comorbid polysubstance use and homelessness.
Authors
- Hollie Porras (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1180-9978)
- Reed W R Bratches (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9446-7098)
- Simon B. Ascher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3465-4208)
- David R. Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5711-8689)
- Kelly Gagnon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7996-8951)
- William Bradford (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6497-6251)
Institutions
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
- University of California Davis Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JMIR Formative Research
- Published
- 2024-10-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2196/53510
- Citations
- 6
- Primary Topic
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.86
Funders
- American Heart Association
- National Institutes of Health
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences