Joshua Jayasundara
Biographic Data
| ID | 7145746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Jayasundara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Jayasundara |
| SIGNATURE | JAYASUNDARA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Office of Informatics and Analytics, Nashville, TN, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Diphenhydramine-involved Fatal and Nonfatal Drug Overdoses in Tennessee, 2019–2022
BACKGROUND: Diphenhydramine (DPH), known as the brand name Benadryl, is an over-the-counter medication associated with accidental ingestion leading to nonfatal overdoses. Additionally, DPH has been used in tandem with illicit substances leading to fatal drug overdoses. OBJECTIVE: In response to DPH being seized with illicit drugs as an adulterant, as well as its growing intentional misuse, we sought to explore its recent involvement in fatal and …
A Qualitative Process Evaluation and Quality Improvement of a State Drug Overdose Reporting System Data Collection Approach
Tennessee registered the second-highest drug overdose mortality rate of any state in 2022; such deaths have grown by 90% from 2019 to 2022. Tennessee has participated in the State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS) since 2018. An abstraction team synthesizes data for SUDORS from death certificates, autopsies, and other sources. The purpose of this study was to engage in a comprehensive qualitative evaluation of our SUDORS proce…
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Diphenhydramine-involved Fatal and Nonfatal Drug Overdoses in Tennessee, 2019–2022
BACKGROUND: Diphenhydramine (DPH), known as the brand name Benadryl, is an over-the-counter medication associated with accidental ingestion leading to nonfatal overdoses. Additionally, DPH has been used in tandem with illicit substances leading to fatal drug overdoses. OBJECTIVE: In response to DPH being seized with illicit drugs as an adulterant, as well as its growing intentional misuse, we sought to explore its recent involvement in fatal and …
A Qualitative Process Evaluation and Quality Improvement of a State Drug Overdose Reporting System Data Collection Approach
Tennessee registered the second-highest drug overdose mortality rate of any state in 2022; such deaths have grown by 90% from 2019 to 2022. Tennessee has participated in the State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS) since 2018. An abstraction team synthesizes data for SUDORS from death certificates, autopsies, and other sources. The purpose of this study was to engage in a comprehensive qualitative evaluation of our SUDORS proce…
Medicine (2 works) · Applied Psychology (1 work) · Applied Psychology (1 work) · Big Data and Business Intelligence (1 work) · Burnout (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Clinical Psychology (1 work) · Clinical Psychology (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Data collection (1 work)