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Published on: April 23, 2019
Novel digital approaches to the assessment of problematic opioid use
Philip J Freda1, Henry R Kranzler2, Jason H Moore3
1Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Department of Computational Biomedicine, 700 N. San Vicente Blvd., Pacific Design Center Suite G540, West Hollywood, CA, 90069, USA. philip.freda@cshs.org.
Abstract:
The opioid epidemic continues to contribute to loss of life through overdose and significant social and economic burdens. Many individuals who develop problematic opioid use (POU) do so after being exposed to prescribed opioid analgesics. Therefore, it is important to accurately identify and classify risk factors for POU. In this review, we discuss the etiology of POU and highlight novel approaches to identifying its risk factors. These approaches include the application of polygenic risk scores (PRS) and diverse machine learning (ML) algorithms used in tandem with data from electronic health records (EHR), clinical notes, patient demographics, and digital footprints. The implementation and synergy of these types of data and approaches can greatly assist in reducing the incidence of POU and opioid-related mortality by increasing the knowledge base of patient-related risk factors, which can help to improve prescribing practices for opioid analgesics.
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