Opioid use and opioid use disorder in mono and dual-system users of veteran affairs medical centers.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Efforts to achieve opioid guideline concordant care may be undermined when patients access multiple opioid prescription sources. Limited data are available on the impact of dual-system sources of care on receipt of opioid medications.

Objective

We examined whether dual-system use was associated with increased rates of new opioid prescriptions, continued opioid prescriptions and diagnoses of opioid use disorder (OUD). We hypothesized that dual-system use would be associated with increased odds for each outcome.

Methods

This retrospective cohort study was conducted using Veterans Administration (VA) data from two facilities from 2015 to 2019, and included active patients, defined as Veterans who had at least one encounter in a calendar year (2015-2019). Dua

SUBMITTER: Goulet J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10141670 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature