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Papers: 17 Dec 2022 - 23 Dec 2022


2022 Sep


Complex Psychiatry


8


1-2

Identifying High-Risk Comorbidities Associated with Opioid Use Patterns Using Electronic Health Record Prescription Data.

Authors

Jennings MV, Lee H J, Rocha DB, Bianchi SB, Coombes BJ, Crist RC, Faucon AB, Hu Y, Kember RL, Mallard TT, Niarchou M, Poulsen MN, Straub P, Urman RD, Walsh CG, Davis LK, Smoller JW, Troiani V, Sanchez-Roige S
Complex Psychiatry. 2022 Sep; 8(1-2):47-55.
PMID: 36545045.

Abstract

Opioid use disorders (OUDs) constitute a major public health issue, and we urgently need alternative methods for characterizing risk for OUD. Electronic health records (EHRs) are useful tools for understanding complex medical phenotypes but have been underutilized for OUD because of challenges related to underdiagnosis, binary diagnostic frameworks, and minimally characterized reference groups. As a first step in addressing these challenges, a new paradigm is warranted that characterizes risk for opioid prescription misuse on a continuous scale of severity, i.e., as a continuum.