Long-term opioid use after bariatric surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Opioid analgesics are often prescribed to manage pain after bariatric surgery, which may develop into chronic prescription opioid use (CPOU) in opioid-naïve patients. Bariatric surgery may affect opioid use in those with or without presurgical CPOU.

Objective

To compare CPOU persistence and incidence in a large multisite cohort of veterans undergoing bariatric surgery (open Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, laparoscopic RYGB, or laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy) and matched nonsurgical controls.

Setting

Veterans Administration hospitals.

Methods

In a retrospective cohort study, we matched 1117 surgical patients with baseline CPOU to 9531 nonsurgical controls, and 2822 surgical patients without CPOU at baseline to 26,392 nonsurgical controls using sequential s

SUBMITTER: Maciejewski ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7423624 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature