Thanks to the black box algorithm, patients “were left in agony. One had her opioids stopped in the hospital and was then dismissed from care by her gynecologist during treatment for painful endometriosis, because of a high score. She didn’t have a drug problem; her score seems to have been elevated because prescriptions for her rescue dogs were recorded under her name, making it appear she was doctor shopping”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/opinion/addiction-risk-score-avertd-narxcare.html
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