Chronic overlapping pain conditions and long-term opioid treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

One in 5 people in the United States lives with chronic pain. Many patients with chronic pain experience a subset of specific co-occurring pain conditions that may share a common pain mechanism and that have been designated as chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs). Little is known about chronic opioid prescribing patterns among patients with COPCs in primary care settings, especially among socioeconomically vulnerable patients. This study aims to evaluate opioid prescribing among patients with COPCs in US community health centers and to identify individual COPCs and their combinations that are associated with long-term opioid treatment (LOT).

Study design

Retrospective cohort study.

Methods

We conducted analyses of more than 1 million patients 18 year

SUBMITTER: Ukhanova M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10516299 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature