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  • Public Health
  • Epidemiology
  • Health Services Research

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  • The Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEALing) Communities Study (HCS) is a large-scale trial investigating interventions to reduce opioid overdose deaths.
  • This study focuses on harmonizing administrative data across four research sites to accurately measure key outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present the methodology for defining and aligning administrative data across multisite research locations.
  • To establish reliable, timely, and sustainable measures for key study outcomes related to the opioid epidemic.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized existing administrative data and established data collection infrastructure.
  • Established data use agreements and developed technical specifications for over 80 study measures.
  • Defined primary outcome (opioid overdose deaths via death certificates) and secondary outcomes (naloxone distribution, buprenorphine treatment, high-risk prescribing).

Main Results:

  • Successfully defined and aligned administrative data across four HCS sites.
  • Established protocols for measuring opioid overdose deaths, naloxone distribution, buprenorphine treatment, and high-risk opioid prescribing.
  • Demonstrated the feasibility of using administrative data for large-scale public health research.

Conclusions:

  • The HCS has enhanced data capacity in participating states.
  • The study provides valuable methodology and tools for data-driven responses to the opioid epidemic.
  • A central repository of community-level longitudinal data will support future research on the Communities That HEAL framework.