Leveraging health information exchange for clinical research: Extreme underreporting of hospital service utilization among patients with substance use disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Substance use disorders are associated with inefficient and fragmented use of healthcare services. The Chesapeake Regional Information System for Our Patients, Inc. (CRISP) is a Health Information Exchange (HIE) linking disparate systems of care in the mid-Atlantic region.

Methods

This article describes applications of HIE for tracking hospital service utilization in substance use disorder clinical and services research, drawing upon data from one of the first studies approved to access the CRISP HIE. Participants were 200 medical/surgical inpatients with comorbid opioid, cocaine, and/or alcohol use disorder (45.5 % female; 56.5 % black; 77.5 % opioid use disorder; 42.0 % homeless). This study compared HIE-identified hospital service utilization with conventional

SUBMITTER: Gryczynski J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7299087 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature