Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP
Oct 21, 2025
CONTEXT: Predictive modeling can identify neighborhoods at elevated risk of future overdose death and may assist community organizations' decisions about harm reduction resource allocation. In Rhode Island, PROVIDENT is a research initiative and rand...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Aug 30, 2025
Regional citrate anticoagulation (RCA) is critical for extracorporeal anticoagulation in continuous renal replacement therapy done at the bedside. To make patients' data more secure and to help with computer-based monitoring of dosages, we suggest a ...
In recent years, there has been a growing body of literature on identifying effective determinants for modeling the spatial variation of overdose rates, addressing this emerging public health concern globally. We compiled a range of widely recognized...
BACKGROUND: The opioid crisis poses a significant health challenge in the United States, with increasing overdoses and death rates due to opioids mixed with other illicit substances. Various strategies have been developed by federal and local governm...
The opioid overdose epidemic has rapidly expanded in North America, with rates accelerating during the COVID-19 pandemic. No existing study has demonstrated prospective opioid overdose at a population level. This study aimed to develop and validate a...
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the predictive performance of different data sources to forecast fatal overdose in Rhode Island neighborhoods, with the goal of providing a template for other jurisdictions interested in predictive analytics to direct overdose...
BACKGROUND: Fatal drug overdose surveillance informs prevention but is often delayed because of autopsy report processing and death certificate coding. Autopsy reports contain narrative text describing scene evidence and medical history (similar to p...
Persons who inject drugs (PWID) are at increased risk for overdose death (ODD), infections with HIV, hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), and noninfectious health conditions. Spatiotemporal identification of PWID communities is essential fo...
The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse
Oct 2, 2020
BACKGROUND: With the artificial intelligence (AI) paradigm shift comes momentum toward the development and scale-up of novel AI interventions to aid in opioid use disorder (OUD) care, in the identification of overdose risk, and in the reversal of ove...
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