A Typology of New Long-term Opioid Prescribing in the Veterans Health Administration.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Narrow definitions of long-term opioid (LTO) use result in limited knowledge of the full range of LTO prescribing patterns and the rates of these patterns.

Objective

To investigate a model of new LTO prescribing typologies using latent class analysis.

Design

National administrative data from the VA Corporate Data Warehouse were accessed using the VA Informatics and Computing Infrastructure. Characterization of the typology of initial LTO prescribing was explored using latent class analysis.

Participants

Veterans initiating LTO during 2016 through the Veteran's Administration Healthcare System (N = 42,230).

Main measures

Opioid receipt as determined by VA prescription data, using the cabinet supply methodology.

Key results

Over one-quart

SUBMITTER: Hadlandsmyth K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7458960 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature