Strategies to Identify Patient Risks of Prescription Opioid Addiction When Initiating Opioids for Pain: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Although prescription opioid use disorder is associated with substantial harms, strategies to identify patients with pain among whom prescription opioids can be safely prescribed have not been systematically reviewed.

Objective

To review the evidence examining factors associated with opioid addiction and screening tools for identifying adult patients at high vs low risk of developing symptoms of prescription opioid addiction when initiating prescription opioids for pain.

Data sources

MEDLINE and Embase (January 1946 to November 2018) were searched for articles investigating risks of prescription opioid addiction.

Study selection

Original studies that were included compared symptoms, signs, risk factors, and screening tools among patients who develope

SUBMITTER: Klimas J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6503484 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature