Previous studies reported that opioids depress breathing by inhibiting respiratory neural networks in the brainstem. The effects of opioids on sensory inputs regulating breathing are less studied. This study examined the effects of fentanyl and sufen...
BACKGROUND: The opioid epidemic in the United States remains a major public health concern, with opioid-related deaths increasing more than 8-fold since 1999. Chronic pain, affecting 1 in 5 US adults, is a key contributor to opioid use and misuse. Wh...
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to leverage machine learning techniques to analyze administrative claims and socioeconomic data, with the aim of identifying and interpreting the risk factors associated with high-dose opioid prescribing.
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 18, 2023
This paper aimed to detect the latent clusters of patients with opioid use disorder and to identify the risk factors affecting drug misuse using unsupervised machine learning. The cluster with the highest proportion of successful treatment outcomes w...
INTRODUCTION: There is a lack of clarity regarding the ideal local anaesthetic volume for modified thoracolumbar interfascial plane (mTLIP) block. This study was designed to investigate the analgesic efficacy of two different volumes of bupivacaine 0...
Fentanyl and its analogues are psychoactive substances and the concern of fentanyl abuse has been existed in decades. Because the structure of fentanyl is easy to be modified, criminals may synthesize new fentanyl analogues to avoid supervision. The ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2022
Potential of natural language processing (NLP) in extracting patient's information from clinical notes of opioid treatment programs (OTP) and leveraging it in development of predictive models has not been fully explored. The goal of this study was to...
BACKGROUND: Long-term opioid use has negative health care consequences. Patients who undergo surgery are at risk for prolonged opioid use after surgery (POUS). While risk factors have been previously identified, no methods currently exist to determin...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 30, 2021
OBJECTIVE: The United States is experiencing an opioid epidemic. In recent years, there were more than 10 million opioid misusers aged 12 years or older annually. Identifying patients at high risk of opioid use disorder (OUD) can help to make early c...
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