Nathan A. Kimbrel

Pilot Study of Cannabis Use Reduction and Associated Functional Outcomes.

AIMS: Interventions for cannabis use disorder often reduce the frequency and quantity of use, but rarely achieve sustained abstinence. It remains unclear whether reductions in use (rather than sustained abstinence) result in meaningful improvements in functioning. This study eval...

Data-driven prediction of fifteen-year all-cause mortality among 2.3 million individuals in the VA

ABSTRACT We present a data-driven framework to predict 15-year all-cause mortality using outpatient administrative records for 2.3 million Veterans in the largest integrated U.S. healthcare system. Rather than relying on predefined clinical phenotypes, we used the 1,000 most comm...