Opioid-related mortality after occupational injury in Washington State: accounting for preinjury opioid use.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate the impact of occupational injury and illness on opioid-related mortality while accounting for confounding by preinjury opioid use.

Methods

We employed a retrospective cohort study design using Washington State workers' compensation data for 1994-2000 injuries linked to US Social Security Administration earnings and mortality data and National Death Index (NDI) cause of death data from 1994 to 2018. We categorised injuries as lost-time versus medical-only, where the former involved more than 3 days off work or permanent disability. We determined death status and cause of death from NDI records. We modelled separate Fine and Gray subdistribution hazard ratios (sHRs) and 95% CIs for injured men and women for opioid-related and all drug-related mortality

SUBMITTER: Boden LI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11526225 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature