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Characterizing Non-Heroin Opioid Overdoses Using Electronic Health Records., Amelia J Averitt, B. H. Slovis, Abdul A Tariq, David K Vawdrey, Adler J Perotte
Characterizing Non-Heroin Opioid Overdoses Using Electronic Health Records., Amelia J Averitt, B. H. Slovis, Abdul A Tariq, David K Vawdrey, Adler J Perotte
Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty Papers
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 …