Anesthesia and analgesia
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Oct 2024
Classifying High-Risk Patients for Persistent Opioid Use After Major Spine Surgery: A Machine-Learning Approach.
Persistent opioid use is a common occurrence after surgery and prolonged exposure to opioids may result in escalation and dependence. The objective of this study was to develop machine-learning-based predictive models for persistent opioid use after major spine surgery. ⋯ The balanced random forest classifier was found to be the most effective model for identifying persistent opioid use after spine surgery.