Characterizing non-heroin opioid overdoses using electronic health records.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The opioid epidemic is a modern public health emergency. Common interventions to alleviate the opioid epidemic aim to discourage excessive prescription of opioids. However, these methods often take place over large municipal areas (state-level) and may fail to address the diversity that exists within each opioid case (individual-level). An intervention to combat the opioid epidemic that takes place at the individual-level would be preferable.

Methods

This research leverages computational tools and methods to characterize the opioid epidemic at the individual-level using the electronic health record data from a large, academic medical center. To better understand the characteristics of patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) we leveraged a self-cont

SUBMITTER: Averitt AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7309230 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature