[HTML][HTML] Receipt of opioid use disorder treatments prior to fatal overdoses and comparison to no treatment in Connecticut, 2016–17

R Heimer, AC Black, H Lin, LE Grau, DA Fiellin… - Drug and alcohol …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective To determine the relative risk of death following exposure to treatments for OUD
compared to no treatment. Methods In this retrospective cohort study we compiled and …

Spatiotemporal Forecasting of Opioid-related Fatal Overdoses: Towards Best Practices for Modeling and Evaluation

K Heuton, J Kapoor, S Shrestha… - American Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
To inform public health interventions, researchers have developed models to forecast opioid-
related overdose mortality. These efforts often have limited overlap in the models and …

Responding to the US opioid crisis: leveraging analytics to support decision making

ML Brandeau - Health Care Management Science, 2023 - Springer
The US is experiencing a severe opioid epidemic with more than 80,000 opioid overdose
deaths occurring in 2022. Beyond the tragic loss of life, opioid use disorder (OUD) has …

Spatiotemporal Trends of Birth Defects in North Carolina, 2003-2015

H Lu, AF Olshan, ML Serre, KM Anthony, RC Fry… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Birth defects are a leading cause of infant mortality in the United States, but little is known
about causes of many types of birth defects. Spatiotemporal disease mapping to identify …