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Wisconsin's Novel Approach to Creating a Health Outcomes Opioid Surveillance System
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Objective Wisconsin is leading the way in novel approaches monitoring health outcomes for opioid-related adverse events. This panel will share innovative public health informatics methods that harness various data sources (e.g… read more -
Prescription Opioid Abuse: Gleaning insights from hospital and vital records data
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There is a resurgence in the need to evaluate the economic burden of prescription drug hospitalizations in the United States. We used the Wisconsin 2014 Hospital Discharge data to examine opioid related hospitalization incidence and costs. Fentanyl… read more -
Opioid Overdose Ambulance Runs: How Wisconsin Uses Free Text Data
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In 2016, twelve states received Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance grants. The purpose of the grant is to explore enhanced data sources to track nonfatal opioid overdoses. One data source is… read more -
Heroin Overdose Hospitalization Risk due to Prescription Opioids using PDMP in WI.
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Nationally and in Wisconsin, heroin is the leading cause of opioid related death and hospitalization. Opioids are commonly prescribed for pain. Every day, over 1,000 people are treated in emergency departments for misusing prescription opioids. In… read more