ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2020
Operationalizing and selecting outcome measures for the HEALing Communities Study.
Article in Drug and alcohol dependence, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Local level of social inequity moderates implementation of evidence-based practices tailored to minoritized populations to reduce opioid overdose deaths.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2026Trial
- The effectiveness of the communities that HEAL intervention on reducing non-fatal opioid overdoses: A prespecified secondary analysis of a waitlist cluster control randomized controlled trial.The International journal on drug policy · 2025Trial
- Effect of the Communities That HEAL Intervention on Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution: A Cluster-Randomized, Wait-List Controlled Trial.American journal of public health · 2025Trial
- Communities That HEAL Intervention and Mortality Including Polysubstance Overdose Deaths: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Community-Based Cluster-Randomized Trial to Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths.The New England journal of medicine · 2024Trial
- Effect of the Communities that HEAL intervention on receipt of behavioral therapies for opioid use disorder: A cluster randomized wait-list controlled trial.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2024Trial
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- Lessons From the Community-Engaged, Data-Driven Selection of Evidence-Based Practice Strategies in the HEALing Communities Study.Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMPTrial
- Understanding Data Use in Community Coalitions: Insights from a CFIR 2.0-Informed Study of the Ohio HEALing Communities Initiative.Community mental health journal · 2026Article
- The association between naloxone distribution, buprenorphine treatment and retention and incident high-risk opioid prescribing with opioid overdose death in Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York and Ohio, United States: An exploratory community-level cohort study of data from the HEALing Communities Study.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Observational
- Customizing and fine-tuning opioid overdose machine learning models for community-specific dashboards.Journal of big data · 2026Article
- Building Public Health Data Dashboards: Tutorial Playbook.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2026Article
- Establishing a public health surveillance system for the opioid crisis: The experience of the HEALing Communities Study.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2026Article
- Do Communities Implementing the Communities That HEAL Intervention Have Significantly Lower Rates of High-Risk Opioid Prescribing and Dispensing?AJPM focus · 2025Article
- HEALing Communities Study: Data measures for supporting a community-based intervention to reduce opioid overdose deaths.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Employment industry and opioid overdose risk: A pre- and post-COVID-19 comparison in Kentucky and Massachusetts 2018-2021.Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology · 2025Article
- Impact of the Communities That HEAL Intervention on Buprenorphine-Waivered Practitioners and Buprenorphine Prescribing: A Prespecified Secondary Analysis of the HCS Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Community-level Factors and their Associations with Changing Opioid Overdose Fatality Rates in Kentucky, 2019-2021.Journal of Appalachian health · 2024Article
- Contributions of a central registry to monitor methadone -treatment through the HEALing Communities Study.Journal of opioid management · 2023Article
- Applied risk mapping and spatial analysis of address-level decedent data to inform opioid overdose interventions: The Massachusetts HEALing Communities Study.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe Helping to End Addiction Long-term
methodsPriority was given to using administrative data and established data collection infrastructure to ensure reliable, timely, and sustainable measures and to harmonize study outcomes across the HCS sites.
resultsThe research teams established multiple data use agreements and developed technical specifications for more than 80 study measures. The primary outcome, number of opioid overdose deaths, will be measured from death certificate data. Three secondary outcome measures will support hypothesis testing for specific evidence-based practices known to decrease opioid overdose deaths: (1) number of naloxone units distributed in HCS communities; (2) number of unique HCS residents receiving Food and Drug Administration-approved buprenorphine products for treatment of opioid use disorder; and (3) number of HCS residents with new incidents of high-risk opioid prescribing.
conclusionsThe HCS has already made an impact on existing data capacity in the four states. In addition to providing data needed to measure study outcomes, the HCS will provide methodology and tools to facilitate data-driven responses to the opioid epidemic, and establish a central repository for community-level longitudinal data to help researchers and public health practitioners study and understand different aspects of the Communities That HEAL framework.
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