Identifying emergency department patients at high risk for opioid overdose using natural language processing and machine learning.

Journal: Journal of substance use and addiction treatment
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Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Emergency departments (ED) are potential sites for identifying and treating individuals at high risk for opioid overdose. This study used machine learning (ML)-based models to predict opioid overdose death in the 12 months after an ED visit.

Authors

  • Amanda Sharp
    Health Equity Research Lab, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, United States of America. Electronic address: asharp@challiance.org.
  • Gareth J Parry
    Health Equity Research Lab, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, United States of America; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America.
  • Gabriel Ríos Pérez
    Health Equity Research Lab, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, United States of America.
  • Brian O Mullin
    Health Equity Research Lab, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, United States of America.
  • Xinyu Yang
    Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.
  • Anika Kumar
    Institute for Behavioral Health, Heller School for Social Policy & Management Brandeis University, United States of America.
  • Timothy Creedon
    Health Equity Research Lab, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, United States of America.
  • Michael Flores
    Health Equity Research Lab, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, United States of America; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America.
  • Christopher M Fischer
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital, United States of America.
  • Zev Schuman-Olivier
    Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America.
  • Margo Moyer
    John Snow, Inc., United States of America.
  • Nathaniel M Tran
    Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University, United States of America.
  • Benjamin L Cook
    Health Equity Research Laboratory, Cambridge Health Alliance, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 1035 Cambridge Street, Suite 26, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA.