Cancer survivorship and its association with perioperative opioid use for minor non-cancer surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Reducing high-risk prescription opioid use after surgery has become a key strategy in mitigating the opioid crisis. Yet, despite their vulnerabilities, we know little about how cancer survivors use opioids for non-cancer perioperative pain compared to those with no history of cancer. The purpose was to examine the association of cancer survivorship with the likelihood of receiving perioperative opioid therapy for non-cancer minor surgery.

Methods

Using 2007-2014 SEER-Medicare data for breast, colorectal, prostate, and non-cancer populations, we conducted retrospective cohort study of opioid-naïve Medicare beneficiaries who underwent one of six common minor non-cancer surgeries. Modified Poisson regression estimated the relative risk of receiving a perioperative opioi

SUBMITTER: Eiffert S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7529663 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature