A New Approach to Analyzing Opioid Use among SSDI Applicants

April Yanyuan Wu, Peter Mariani, Jia Pu and Andrew Hurwitz

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Abstract: 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.

Keywords: disability; opioids; machine learning; SSDI (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39
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