Prevalence of Preoperative Opioid Use and Characteristics Associated With Opioid Use Among Patients Presenting for Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Patterns of preoperative opioid use are not well characterized across different surgical services, and studies in this patient population have lacked important self-reported data of pain and affect.

Objectives

To assess the prevalence of preoperative opioid use and the characteristics of these patients in a broadly representative surgical cohort.

Design, setting, and participants

Cross-sectional, observational study of patients undergoing surgery at a tertiary care academic medical center. Data were collected as a part of large prospective institutional research registries from March 1, 2010, through April 30, 2016.

Exposures

Preoperative patient and procedural characteristics, including prospectively assessed self-reported pain and functional measur

SUBMITTER: Hilliard PE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6233789 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature