Commentary on Winhusen et al. (2019): Substance use disorders, chronic diseases, and electronic health records-a paradigm for screening and intervention.

Mannelli, Paolo; Wu, Li-Tzy · Addiction · 2019

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Abstract

The use of the electronic health record to study the relationship between substance use disorders, diabetes and hypertension has identified high-severity, high-cost conditions. Improving data quality and validation will enhance our ability to perform medical record-based screening of substance use disorders and treatment of their complications among patients with multiple chronic illnesses.

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