Publications
Antecedents of Fatal Overdose in an Adult Cohort Identified Through Administrative Record Linkage in Indiana, 2015-2022
Background: The United States continues to experience unprecedented rates of overdose mortality and need to identify effective policies or practices that can be implemented. This study aims to measure the…
Read MoreIntegrating PRISM With User-Centered Design (PRISM+UCD): Designing Clinical Decision Support for Safe Opioid Prescribing
Background: Balancing safe opioid prescribing with effective pain management is essential to addressing the opioid crisis. Increasing clinician adoption of evidence-based safety practices is a public health priority. This project…
Read MoreClinical Decision Support to Increase Naloxone Co-prescribing from the Inpatient Setting
Background: Co-prescribing naloxone alongside opioid prescriptions reduces fatal opioid overdose risk in patients discharged from inpatient care, yet its adoption remains limited. Clinical decision support (CDS) tools are effective in…
Read MoreMedicaid-Covered Peer Support Services Used by Enrollees With Opioid Use Disorder
Enhancing Gen3 for Clinical Trial Time Series Analytics and Data Discovery: A Data Commons Framework for NIH Clinical Trials
This work presents a framework for enhancing Gen3, an open-source data commons platform, with temporal visualization capabilities for clinical trial research. We describe the technical implementation of cloud-native architecture and…
Read MoreBreaking Digital Health Barriers Through a Large Language Model-Based Tool for Automated Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Mapping: Development and Validation Study
Background: The integration of diverse clinical data sources requires standardization through models such as Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP). However, mapping data elements to OMOP concepts demands significant technical expertise…
Read MoreConnecting Chronic Pain and Opioid Use Disorder Clinical Trials Through Data Harmonization: Wake Forest IMPOWR Dissemination, Education, and Coordination Center (IDEA-CC)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has developed the NIH HEAL Integrative Management of chronic Pain and OUD for Whole Recovery (IMPOWR) network to address the interconnected nature of chronic…
Read MoreNotable Concerns in Methodology and Conclusions of the Wang et al. Meta-Analysis in BMJ by the American Academy of Pain Medicine
Cost Disparities Between Pain and Opioid Use Disorder Formulations of Buprenorphine in US Health Care System: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
Background: Buprenorphine offers unique therapeutic benefits in both pain management and addiction medicine through its partial μ-opioid agonist and κ-opioid antagonist properties, providing effective analgesia with reduced abuse potential and…
Read MoreStandardizing Research Methods for Opioid Dose Comparison: The NIH HEAL Morphine Milligram Equivalent Calculator
We developed the National Institutes of Health helping to end addiction long-term initiative morphine milligram equivalent (MME) calculator to standardize MME calculations across pain research studies, addressing a critical barrier…
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