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  • 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
    … as a proxy of Fentanyl use, result in excessive health care costs. Objective In this paper we used hospital charges … as a proxy of Fentanyl use, result in excessive health care costs. Objective In this paper we used hospital charges …