Description
Prescription opioid use has more than tripled since the 2000s and accounts for ~24% of all U.S. opioid misuse-related deaths in 2017. Current prevalence of opioid misuse is ~57.4 per 10,000. Past research relied on structured data from International Classification of Disease Codes (ICD). We use natural language processing to estimate opioid-misuse prevalence in emergency departments using text and ICD codes. We found the true rate of opioid misuse in the emergency department is ~95 per 10,000 encounters.
Learning Objective: 1. Provide prevalence estimates of opioid-misuse encounters in the emergency department using clinical text and ICD codes.
2. Inform appropriate methods for searching and identifying clinical text using natural language processing.
Authors:
Kevin Wiley (Presenter)
Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health
Casey Balio, Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health
Marion Greene, Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health
Joshua Vest, Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health
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