Health outcomes and costs in patients with osteoarthritis and chronic pain treated with opioids in Spain: the OPIOIDS real-world study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of this study was to analyze health outcomes, resource utilization, and costs in osteoarthritis patients with chronic nociceptive pain who began treatment with an opioid in real-world practice in Spain.

Methods

We designed a non-interventional, retrospective, longitudinal study with 36 months of follow-up using electronic medical records (EMRs) from primary care centers, of patients aged 18+ years who began a new treatment with an opioid drug in usual practice for chronic pain due to osteoarthritis. Health/non-health resource utilization and costs, treatment adherence, pain change, cognitive functioning, and dependence for basic activities of daily living (BADL) were assessed.

Results

A total of 38,539 EMRs [mean age (SD); 70.8 (14.3) years, 72

SUBMITTER: Sicras-Mainar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7502862 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature