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The Association between Non-Medical Prescription Drug Use and Suicidal Behavior among United States Adolescents

open access: yesAIMS Public Health, 2014
Adolescence represents a vulnerable time for the development of both drug use/abuse and mental illness. Although previous research has substantiated a relationship between drug use and suicidal behavior, little research has examined this relationship ...
A. Divin, K. Zullig
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Non-medical prescription opioid use, prescription opioid-related harms and public health in Canada: An update 5 years later

open access: yesCanadian journal of public health, 2014
Five years ago, we highlighted Canada’s emerging problem of prescription opioid (PO)-related harms and emphasized the need for targeted surveillance, research and interventions.
B. Fischer   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Impact of Opioid Prescribing Limits on Drug Usage in South Carolina: A Novel Geospatial and Time Series Data Analysis [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Background: To curb the opioid epidemic, legislation regulating the amount of opioid prescriptions covered by Medicaid (Title XIX of the Social Security Act Medical Assistance Program) came into effect in May 2018 in South Carolina. Methods: We employ a classification system based on distance and disparity between dispensers, prescribers, and patients ...
arxiv  

A Secure Electronic Prescription System Using Steganography with Encryption Key Implementation [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2015
Over the years health care has seen major improvement due to the introduction information and communication technology with electronic medical prescription being one the areas benefiting from it. Within the overall context of protection of health care information, privacy of prescription data needs special treatment.
arxiv  

Physical activity on medical prescription: A qualitative study of factors influencing take-up and adherence in chronically ill patients

open access: yes, 2015
Objective: This study sought to determine the effects of an innovative public health programme offering physical and sports activities on medical prescription to chronically ill patients.
W. Gasparini   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Combination of Merocel sponge with Lipopolysaccharide to establish rat rhinosinusitis model

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, 2023
Objective: The study aimed to investigate the feasibility of establishing rhinosinusitis model in rats combinated with Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and merocel sponge.
Mengmeng Sun   +5 more
doaj  

A Secure Intelligent Decision Support System for Prescribing Medication [PDF]

open access: yesCISDI 3:3 9-18, 2015
The process of electronic approach to writing and sending medical prescription promises to improve patient safety, health outcomes, maintaining patients privacy, promoting clinician acceptance and prescription security when compared with the customary paper method.
arxiv  

Neural Medication Extraction: A Comparison of Recent Models in Supervised and Semi-supervised Learning Settings [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
Drug prescriptions are essential information that must be encoded in electronic medical records. However, much of this information is hidden within free-text reports. This is why the medication extraction task has emerged. To date, most of the research effort has focused on small amount of data and has only recently considered deep learning methods. In
arxiv  

PREMIER: Personalized REcommendation for Medical prescrIptions from Electronic Records [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2020
The broad adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) has led to vast amounts of data being accumulated on a patient's history, diagnosis, prescriptions, and lab tests. Advances in recommender technologies have the potential to utilize this information to help doctors personalize the prescribed medications. In this work, we design a two-stage attention-
arxiv  

An introduction to network analysis for studies of medication use [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
Background: Network Analysis (NA) is a method that has been used in various disciplines such as Social sciences and Ecology for decades. So far, NA has not been used extensively in studies of medication use. Only a handful of papers have used NA in Drug Prescription Networks (DPN).
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