Perry et al., "Co-prescription network reveals social dynamics of opioid doctor shopping" (2019)
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Brea L. Perry, Kai-Cheng Yang, Patrick Kaminski, Meltem Odabas, Jaehyuk Park, Michelle Martel, Carrie B. Oser, Patricia R. Freeman, Yong-Yeol Ahn, and Jeffery Talbert, PLOS ONE 14(10), e0223849 (2019)
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@article{perry2019coprescription,
author = {Brea L. Perry and Kai-Cheng Yang and Patrick Kaminski and Meltem Odabas and Jaehyuk Park and Michelle Martel and Carrie B. Oser and Patricia R. Freeman and Yong-Yeol Ahn and Jeffery Talbert},
title = {Co-prescription network reveals social dynamics of opioid doctor shopping},
journal = {PLOS ONE},
volume = {14},
number = {10},
pages = {e0223849},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0223849},
year = {2019},
}
Constructs patient co-prescription networks from shared opioid prescribers. Higher PageRank was associated with more prescriptions and greater risk of high dosage, overdose, and opioid use disorder after accounting for the number of prescribers and other covariates.
Opioid epidemic, Doctor shopping, Co prescription network