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Using harmonized FITBIR datasets to examine associations between TBI history and cognitive functioning.

Appl Neuropsychol Adult

September 2024

Informatics, Decision Enhancement, and Analytics Science (IDEAS) Center, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

Objective: Demonstrate how patient-level traumatic brain injury (TBI) data from studies in the Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research (FITBIR) Informatics System can be harmonized and pooled to examine relationships between TBI and cognitive functioning.

Method: We harmonized and pooled data across studies and analyzed rates of probable cognitive functioning deficits by TBI history and severity.

Results: Four publicly available FITBIR studies with 3,445 participants included data on cognitive dysfunction, though only one included comparison groups (mild TBI vs.

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Buprenorphine use and courses of care for opioid use disorder treatment within the Veterans Health Administration.

Drug Alcohol Depend

July 2023

Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA; Informatics, Decision Enhancement, and Analytics Science (IDEAS) Center, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

Background: Retention of patients in buprenorphine medication treatment for opioid use disorder (B-MOUD) reduces harms associated with opioid use disorder (OUD). We sought to characterize the patients receiving B-MOUD and courses of B-MOUD in a large healthcare system.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective, open cohort study of patients with OUD who either did or did not receive B-MOUD courses within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) from January 2006 through July 2019, using VHA clinical data.

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