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PROPOSED GRANT AWARD
Department: Cook County Health
Grantee: Cook County Health
Grantor: Department of Health & Human Services/National Institute of Health
Request: Authorization to accept grant
Purpose: Machine learning approaches for the detection of emergency department patients with opioid misuse.
Grant Amount: $198,000.00
Grant Period: 4/15/2022-3/31/2023
Fiscal Impact: N/A
Accounts: N/A
Concurrences:
The Budget Department has received all requisite documents and determined the fiscal impact on Cook County, if any
Summary: Opioid overdose is a leading cause of death in the United States with approximately 49,000 deaths and 1.5 million Emergency Department (ED) encounters related to opioid misuse annually. ED-based interventions for opioid misuse are effective but limited in scale by barriers to the accurate detection of all patients who could benefit from these interventions. This program seeks to use machine learning approaches to better identify and characterize ED patients with opioid misuse so that timely treatments can be targeted to decrease opioid-related mortality.
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