Classifying Preoperative Opioid Use for Surgical Care.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We characterized patterns of preoperative opioid use in patients undergoing elective surgery to identify the relationship between preoperative use and subsequent opioid fill after surgery.

Background

Preoperative opioid use is common, and varies by dose, recency, duration, and continuity of fills. To date, there is little evidence to guide postoperative prescribing need based on prior opioid use.

Methods

We analyzed claims data from Clinformatics DataMart Database for patients aged 18 to 64 years undergoing major and minor surgery between 2008 and 2015. Preoperative use was defined as any opioid prescription filled in the year before surgery. We used cluster analysis to group patients by the dose, recency, duration, and continuity of use. Our primary outcome

SUBMITTER: Vu JV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7092502 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature