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Timely public health surveillance is required to understand trends in opioid use and harms. Here, opioid dispensing data from the Nova Scotia Prescription Monitoring Program are presented alongside fatality data… Click to show full abstract
Timely public health surveillance is required to understand trends in opioid use and harms. Here, opioid dispensing data from the Nova Scotia Prescription Monitoring Program are presented alongside fatality data from the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service. Concurrent monitoring of trends in these data sources is essential to detect population-level effects (whether intended or unintended) of interventions related to opioid prescribing.
Keywords:
nova scotia;
monitoring opioid;
opioid prescribing;
glance concurrent;
concurrent monitoring
Journal Title: Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice
Year Published: 2018
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Journal Title: Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice
Year Published: 2018
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