Health IT Analytics July 22, 2022
Researchers have developed and validated a model to predict outpatient opioid use following gynecological surgical procedures, and they further plan to validate the model in other populations.
A team of researchers has developed a prediction model capable of forecasting post-operative outpatient opioid use following gynecological surgery, which is currently being implemented in the clinical setting.
Opioid misuse and addiction are major public health challenges, resulting in a widespread opioid crisis that has been difficult to contain. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), prescription opioids have had a significant role in driving the crisis since the 1990s, when the number of opioids prescribed to patients for pain management began to increase. Similarly, the number of overdoses...
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