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. 2023 Nov-Dec;29(6):831-834.
doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001796. Epub 2023 Jul 26.

Tying Overdose Data to Action: North Carolina's Opioid and Substance Use Action Plan Data Dashboard

Mike Dolan Fliss  1 , Mary E Cox, Scott Proescholdbell, Amy Patel, MegAnn Smith
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Tying Overdose Data to Action: North Carolina's Opioid and Substance Use Action Plan Data Dashboard

Mike Dolan Fliss et al. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2023 Nov-Dec.

Abstract

From 2000 to 2020, more than 28 000 North Carolina (NC) residents died of drug overdose. In response, NC Department of Health and Human Services worked with community partners to develop an Opioid and Substance Use Action Plan (OSUAP), now in its third iteration. The NC OSUAP data dashboard brings together data on 15 public health indicators and 16 local actions across 8 strategies. We share innovations in design, data structures, user tasks, and visual elements over 5 years of dashboard development and maintenance, with a special focus and supplemental material covering the technical details and techniques that dashboard design and implementation teams may benefit from.

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The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

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Strategy, Indicator, and Local Action Matrix for NC Opioid and Substance Use Action Plan 3.0.
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