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- description: <p>The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) is a nationally representative public health surveillance system
that has monitored drug related emergency department (ED) visits to hospitals since the early 1970s. First administered by
the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the responsibility for DAWN now
rests with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Center for Behavioral Health Statistics
and Quality (CBHSQ). Over the years, the exact survey methodology has been adjusted to improve the quality, reliability, and
generalizability of the information produced by DAWN. The current approach was first fully implemented in the 2004 data collection
year.<br /> DAWN relies on a longitudinal probability sample of hospitals located throughout the United States. To be
eligible for selection into the DAWN sample, a hospital must be a non-Federal, short-stay, general surgical and medical hospital
located in the United States, with at least one 24-hour ED. DAWN cases are identified by the systematic review of ED medical
records in participating hospitals. The unit of analysis is any ED visit involving recent drug use. DAWN captures both ED
visits that are directly caused by drugs and those in which drugs are a contributing factor but not the direct cause of the
ED visit. The reason a patient used a drug is not part of the criteria for considering a visit to be drug-related. Therefore,
all types of drug-related events are included: drug misuse or abuse, accidental drug ingestion, drug-related suicide attempts,
malicious drug poisonings, and adverse reactions. DAWN does not report medications that are unrelated to the visit.<br
/> The DAWN public-use dataset provides information for all types of drugs, including illegal drugs, prescription drugs,
over-the-counter medications, dietary supplements, anesthetic gases, substances that have psychoactive effects when inhaled,
alcohol when used in combination with other drugs (all ages), and alcohol alone (only for patients aged 20 or younger). Public-use
dataset variables describe and categorize up to 22 drugs contributing to the ED visit, including toxicology confirmation and
route of administration. Administrative variables specify the type of case, case disposition, categorized episode time of
day, and quarter of year. Metropolitan area is included for represented metropolitan areas. Created variables include the
number of unique drugs reported and case-level indicators for alcohol, non-alcohol illicit substances, any pharmaceutical,
non-medical use of pharmaceuticals, and all misuse and abuse of drugs. Demographic items include age category, sex, and race/ethnicity.
Complex sample design and weighting variables are included to calculate various estimates of drug-related ED visits for the
Nation as a whole, as well as for specific metropolitan areas, from the ED visits classified as DAWN cases in the selected
hospitals.This study has 1 Data Set.</p>; abstract: <p>The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) is a nationally representative
public health surveillance system that has monitored drug related emergency department (ED) visits to hospitals since the
early 1970s. First administered by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA),
the responsibility for DAWN now rests with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Center
for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality (CBHSQ). Over the years, the exact survey methodology has been adjusted to improve
the quality, reliability, and generalizability of the information produced by DAWN. The current approach was first fully implemented
in the 2004 data collection year.<br /> DAWN relies on a longitudinal probability sample of hospitals located throughout
the United States. To be eligible for selection into the DAWN sample, a hospital must be a non-Federal, short-stay, general
surgical and medical hospital located in the United States, with at least one 24-hour ED. DAWN cases are identified by the
systematic review of ED medical records in participating hospitals. The unit of analysis is any ED visit involving recent
drug use. DAWN captures both ED visits that are directly caused by drugs and those in which drugs are a contributing factor
but not the direct cause of the ED visit. The reason a patient used a drug is not part of the criteria for considering a visit
to be drug-related. Therefore, all types of drug-related events are included: drug misuse or abuse, accidental drug ingestion,
drug-related suicide attempts, malicious drug poisonings, and adverse reactions. DAWN does not report medications that are
unrelated to the visit.<br /> The DAWN public-use dataset provides information for all types of drugs, including illegal
drugs, prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, dietary supplements, anesthetic gases, substances that have psychoactive
effects when inhaled, alcohol when used in combination with other drugs (all ages), and alcohol alone (only for patients aged
20 or younger). Public-use dataset variables describe and categorize up to 22 drugs contributing to the ED visit, including
toxicology confirmation and route of administration. Administrative variables specify the type of case, case disposition,
categorized episode time of day, and quarter of year. Metropolitan area is included for represented metropolitan areas. Created
variables include the number of unique drugs reported and case-level indicators for alcohol, non-alcohol illicit substances,
any pharmaceutical, non-medical use of pharmaceuticals, and all misuse and abuse of drugs. Demographic items include age category,
sex, and race/ethnicity. Complex sample design and weighting variables are included to calculate various estimates of drug-related
ED visits for the Nation as a whole, as well as for specific metropolitan areas, from the ED visits classified as DAWN cases
in the selected hospitals.This study has 1 Data Set.</p>
Citation
- Title Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN-2010).
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- creation Date
2018-06-09T14:15:43.767826
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