Safe opioid prescribing: a prognostic machine learning approach to predicting 30-day risk after an opioid dispensation in Alberta, Canada

Objective To develop machine learning models employing administrative health data that can estimate risk of adverse outcomes within 30 days of an opioid dispensation for use by health departments or prescription monitoring programmes.Design, setting and participants This prognostic study was conduct...

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Main Authors: Dean T Eurich, Salim Samanani, Vinaykumar Kulkarni, Luke Kumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:BMJ Open
Online Access:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/5/e043964.full