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Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 2018 Background Little is known about opioid overdose or naloxone access among pregnant women. Objectives The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of non-fatal overdose, risk factors for overdose, and naloxone access among third trimester
Sarah M. Bagley +6 more
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A suicide by insulin injection: Case report [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2006 Suicide by injection of insulin overdose is uncommon. Insulin has been used as an agent for suicide both in diabetics and healthy subjects. The methods of postmortem forensic diagnosis of insulin overdose were reviewed.
Nikolić Slobodan +2 more
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Enhancing Clinical Predictive Modeling through Model Complexity-Driven Class Proportion Tuning for Class Imbalanced Data: An Empirical Study on Opioid Overdose Prediction [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Class imbalance problems widely exist in the medical field and heavily deteriorates performance of clinical predictive models. Most techniques to alleviate the problem rebalance class proportions and they predominantly assume the rebalanced proportions should be a function of the original data and oblivious to the model one uses.
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Changing dynamics of the drug overdose epidemic in the United States from 1979 through 2016
Science, 2018 Analyzing the drug abuse epidemic There is a developing drug epidemic in the United States. Jalal et al. analyzed nearly 600,000 unintentional drug overdoses over a 38-year period.
Hawre Jalal +5 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.A reconfigurable microneedle electrode array integrated system is developed for minimally invasive and transdermal monitoring of subcutaneous electromyography, reactive oxygen species, and pH values. By assembling discrete thumbtack‐shaped microneedles into an array, the system enables multi‐parameter detection with single‐microneedle resolution.
Zhengjie Liu +12 more
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Health & JusticeObjectives To assess the prevalence of emergency medical incidents wherein naloxone was administered but overdose was not described as the chief complaint during the 9-1-1 call, including differences by overdose victim race/ethnicity and sex.
Danielle N. Atkins +5 more
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Machine Learning for Drug Overdose Surveillance [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 We describe two recently proposed machine learning approaches for discovering emerging trends in fatal accidental drug overdoses. The Gaussian Process Subset Scan enables early detection of emerging patterns in spatio-temporal data, accounting for both the non-iid nature of the data and the fact that detecting subtle patterns requires integration of ...
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British medical journal, 2018 Objective To quantify the effects of varying opioid prescribing patterns after surgery on dependence, overdose, or abuse in an opioid naive population. Design Retrospective cohort study.
G. Brat +10 more
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Healing a Broken System: Veterans and the War on Drugs [PDF]
, 2012 This report examines the plight of returning veterans who struggle with incarceration and psychological wounds of war such as addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder -- and suggests reforms that could improve the health and preserve the freedom of ...
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Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 2013 We describe the case of a 24-year-old woman who intentionally ingested between 400 and 600 mg of amlodipine along with a large number of simvastatin and trazodone tablets.
Tapan, Patel +2 more
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