Mucio Kit Delgado

About

Mucio Kit Delgado, MD, MS, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as the faculty director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, the world’s first behavioral design team embedded within a health system, and is an attending physician in the emergency department at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. Dr. Delgado is also an associate director at the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, co-chair of Penn Medicine's Opioid Task Force, and co-director of Penn PORTAL, one of 16 U.S. Centers of Excellence in learning health system science. His research blends behavioral and data science with insights from practicing emergency medicine in an urban trauma center to guide patients and clinicians toward decisions that enhance personal safety and improve the quality of acute care. He is passionate about leading multidisciplinary teams to address pressing public health problems, including the opioid overdose crisis, COVID-19 pandemic, trauma and firearm injuries, and distracted and alcohol-impaired driving. Dr. Delgado uses a broad set of methodological approaches, including user-centered design, observational comparative effectiveness methods, and pragmatic randomized trials of digital behavioral interventions. His work has led to interventions that have been scaled as the standard of care, and he has received numerous awards and recognitions, including election to the American Society for Clinical…

Research topics

• Political Science
• Psychology
• Law

Selected publications

• Epidemiologic Trends in Fatal and Nonfatal Firearm Injuries in the US, 2009-2017

  JAMA Internal Medicine · 2020-12-09 · 271 citations

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  Importance: Firearm injury research in the US has focused on fatal injuries. The incidence and epidemiologic factors associated with nonfatal firearm injuries are less understood. Objective: To evaluate estimates of incidence and trends over time of fatal and nonfatal firearm injuries. Design, Setting, and Participants: A cross-sectional, ecologic study was conducted using data throughout the US from 2009 to 2017. Data on fatal injuries from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were co…

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• Incidence of Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Following Nonfatal Overdose in Commercially Insured Patients

  JAMA Network Open · 2020-05-27 · 131 citations

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  Importance: Timely initiation and referral to treatment for patients with opioid use disorder seen in the emergency department is associated with reduced mortality. It is not known how often commercially insured adults obtain follow-up treatment after nonfatal opioid overdose. Objective: To investigate the incidence of follow-up treatment following emergency department discharge after nonfatal opioid overdose and patient characteristics associated with receipt of follow-up treatment. Design, Set…

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• Buprenorphine-Precipitated Withdrawal Among Hospitalized Patients Using Fentanyl

  JAMA Network Open · 2024-09-27 · 43 citations

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  Importance: Buprenorphine treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) is safe and effective, but opioid withdrawal during treatment initiation is associated with poor retention in care. As fentanyl has replaced heroin in the drug supply, case reports and surveys have indicated increased concern for buprenorphine-precipitated withdrawal (PW); however, some observational studies have found a low incidence of PW. Objective: To estimate buprenorphine PW incidence and assess factors associated with PW amo…

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• Fatal and Nonfatal Firearm Injury Rates by Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 2019 to 2020

  Annals of Internal Medicine · 2024-07-29 · 30 citations

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  BACKGROUND: Racial disparities in firearm injury death in the United States are well established. Less is known about the magnitude of nonfatal and total firearm injury. OBJECTIVE: To combine health care data with death certificate data to estimate total firearm injuries in various racial and ethnic groups. DESIGN: Retrospective, cross-sectional study. SETTING: Fatal injury data were collected from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Data on nonfatal injuries were collected from the…

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• Artificial Intelligence for Emergency Care Triage—Much Promise, but Still Much to Learn

  JAMA Network Open · 2024-05-07 · 14 citations

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  Christopher Y. K. Williams, MB, BChir; Travis Zack, MD, PhD; Brenda Y. Miao, BA; Madhumita Sushil, PhD; Michelle Wang, PharmD, PhD; Aaron E. Kornblith, MD; Atul J. Butte, MD, PhD

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Recent grants

• Reducing Risky Teen Cellphone Use While Driving Using Behavioral Economics, Technology, and Epidemiology

  NIH · $675k · 2017–2021

Frequent coauthors

• Ruiying Xiong

  Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

  66 shared

• Carlos A. Camargo

  Harvard University

  64 shared

• Juan Carlos C. Montoy

  University of California, San Francisco

  61 shared

• Adit A. Ginde

  University of Colorado Denver

  61 shared

• Catherine C. McDonald

  Philadelphia University

  60 shared

• Douglas J. Wiebe

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  52 shared

• Scott D. Halpern

  University of Pennsylvania

  40 shared

• Elinore J. Kaufman

  University of Pennsylvania

  39 shared

Awards & honors

• Academy Health Publication-of-the-Year Award
• Society for Medical Decision Making Lee Lusted Prize for Out…
• Penn Medicine Marjorie A. Bowman New Investigator Research A…
• Pennsylvania Impact Award from City & State PA
• Elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation

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