OpioidRCR

Master Technical Specifications GoogleDoc

Value Sets

• CDC Oral Opioids
• All Opioids
• Risk factors and outcomes- Exclusion criteria
• Cancer Codes

"Ad Hoc Queries" - Descriptive Statistics for deteriminants and outcomes from logic model

• Review the table shells
• Crosstabs for value sets over demographic and geographic variables
• High Dose (see this SAS code from HHS - June 2018.)
• Possibly useful toolkit from HHS

Replicating CDC Results

• CDC SAS Code to modify
• Crosswalks from CDC NDCs to RXNORM with same MMEs [here]
• TODO (if we decide): Crosswalks to average MMEs for less granular matches
• TO DECIDE How to impute MME and days supply when we don't have it (e.g. impute these based on CMS claims data)
• Table shells matching RX to provider zip code
• TODO SAS PROC SQL queries

Regressions and Predictive Analyses

TODO: Specifications for Unit of analysis = zip code (one model)

• Get public data by zip code/county

TODO: Unit of analysis = person (one model per DMC)

• Specify Data Set: variables, any temporal conditions, and pivot logic from long to wide
• Specify Analytic Model(s):
  • Predictors of guideline adherence (unit of analyis = provider)
  • Predictors of high dose (unit of analysis = patient)
  • Predictors of outcomes (unit of analysis = patient)