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Integrating Social Determinants of Health and Laboratory Data: A Pilot Study To Evaluate Co-Use of Opioids and Benzodiazepines

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Integrating Social Determinants of Health and Laboratory Data: A Pilot Study To Evaluate Co-Use of Opioids and Benzodiazepines
المؤلفون: Jill S. Warrington MD, PhD, Nick Lovejoy BS, MPH, Jamie Brandon BA, Keith Lavoie BS, Chris Powell BA
المصدر: Academic Pathology, Vol 6 (2019)
بيانات النشر: Elsevier, 2019.
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: LCC:Pathology
مصطلحات موضوعية: Pathology, RB1-214
الوصف: As the opioid crisis continues to have devastating consequences for our communities, families, and patients, innovative approaches are necessary to augment clinical care and the management of patients with opioid use disorders. As stewards of health analytic data, laboratories are uniquely poised to approach the opioid crisis differently. With this pilot study, we aimed to bridge laboratory data with social determinants of health data, which are known to influence morbidity and mortality of patients with substance use disorders. For the purpose of this pilot study, we focused on the co-use of opioids and benzodiazepines, which can lead to an increased risk of fatal opioid-related overdoses and increased utilization of acute care. Using the laboratory finding of the copresence of benzodiazepines and opioids as the primary outcome measure, we examined social determinants of health attributes that predict co-use. We found that the provider practice that ordered the laboratory result is the primary predictor of co-use. Increasing age was also predictive of co-use. Further, co-use is highly prevalent in specific geographic areas or “hotspots.” The prominent geographic distribution of co-use suggests that targeted educational initiatives may benefit the communities in which co-use is prevalent. This study exemplifies the Clinical Lab 2.0 approach by leveraging laboratory data to gain insights into the overall health of the patient.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2374-2895
23742895
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2374-2895
DOI: 10.1177/2374289519884877
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/36cbf338f0ab4d90a20737e4ad52749d
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.36cbf338f0ab4d90a20737e4ad52749d
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:23742895
DOI:10.1177/2374289519884877