Surveillance of Drug Overdoses Using Google Fusion Tables

Socialising Data with Google Fusion Tables

We describe the social features of Google Fusion Tables, a cloud-based data management service whose goal is to facilitate collaboration around data sets. The social features include the ability to specify attribution of data sets, a mechanism for conducting discussions on data (at fine granularity, such as row, column or cell), the ability to merge tables that belong to different owners, and t...

Management of drug overdoses.

On endocrinology and drug overdoses.

Prescription drug overdoses: a review.

PROBLEM Overdoses involving prescription drugs in the United States have reached epidemic proportions over the past 20 years. METHODS This review categorizes and summarizes literature on the topic dating from the first published reports through 2011 using a traditional epidemiologic model of host, agent, and environment. RESULTS Host factors include male sex, middle age, non-Hispanic white ...

Drug involvement in fatal overdoses

Death certificate data from the Multiple Cause of Death (MCOD) files were analyzed to better understand the drug categories most responsible for the increase in fatal overdoses occurring between 1999 and 2014. Statistical adjustment methods were used to account for the understatement in reported drug involvement occurring because death certificates frequently do not specify which drugs were inv...