Reducing Opioid Prescriptions by Identifying Responders on Topical Analgesic Treatment Using an Individualized Medicine and Predictive Analytics Approach.

Jeffrey GudinSeferina MavroudiAigli KorfiatiKonstantinos Theofilatos Derek T Dietze Peter L Hurwitz

Published in: Journal of pain research (2020)

Results of this study revealed the potential of machine learning for an individualized medicine application for chronic pain therapies. Topical analgesics treatment were proven to be, in general, beneficial but carefully selecting with the suggested individualized medicine decision support system was able to decrease by approximately 10% the patients which would have been subscribed with topical analgesics without having benefits from it.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
machine learning
end stage renal disease
pain management
chronic kidney disease
newly diagnosed
big data
prognostic factors
climate change
anti inflammatory
human health