Incidence of Postoperative Opioid Overdose and New Diagnosis of Opioid Use Disorder Among US Veterans.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Perioperative exposure to opioids is associated with adverse outcomes. We aim to determine the associations between surgery and subsequent opioid overdose, an acute event, and a new diagnosis of opioid use disorder (OUD), a chronic relapsing disease, in parallel.

Methods

This retrospective cohort study of US veterans used surgery as exposure and the two outcomes were (1) occurrence of overdose and (2) new diagnosis of OUD in the first postoperative year. Surgical group was matched to the reference controls based on the propensity score of having surgery, and matched logistic regression was used to calculate the odds ratio (OR).

Results

A total of 261 208 surgical patients were matched to 479 531 controls. Overdose occurred in 1893 (0.7%) of t

SUBMITTER: Siglin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7416726 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature