An Examination of Claims-based Predictors of Overdose from a Large Medicaid Program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health systems may play an important role in identification of patients at-risk of opioid medication overdose. However, standard measures for identifying overdose risk in administrative data do not exist.

Objective

Examine the association between opioid medication overdose and 2 validated measures of nonmedical use of prescription opioids within claims data.

Research design

A longitudinal retrospective cohort study that estimated associations between overdose and nonmedical use.

Subjects

Adult Pennsylvania Medicaid program 2007-2012 patients initiating opioid treatment who were: nondual eligible, without cancer diagnosis, and not in long-term care facilities or receiving hospice.

Measures

Overdose (International Classification of Disease, nint

SUBMITTER: Cochran G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5309160 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature