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A New Approach to Analyzing Opioid Use among SSDI Applicants

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  • April Yanyuan Wu
  • Peter Mariani
  • Jia Pu
  • Andrew Hurwitz

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This is a proof of concept study for the proposition that machine learning can be used to classify free-form text of SSDI applicant medication information in SSA’s Structured Data Repository. Using this new approach, we documented the opioid use among a sample SSDI applicants.

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  • April Yanyuan Wu & Peter Mariani & Jia Pu & Andrew Hurwitz, "undated". "A New Approach to Analyzing Opioid Use among SSDI Applicants," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 11942c9f2f484a59a26728ca0, Mathematica Policy Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:mpr:mprres:11942c9f2f484a59a26728ca01c1bd73
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    disability; opioids; machine learning; SSDI;
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