The incidence of persistent postoperative opioid use among U.S. veterans: A national study to identify risk factors.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To calculate the incidence and identify the predictors of persistent postoperative opioid use at different postoperative days.

Background data

A subset of surgical patients continues to use long-term opioids. The importance of the risk factors at different postoperative days is not known.

Design

A historical cohort.

Setting

Postoperative period.

Patients

Opioid-naive U.S. veterans.

Interventions

The surgical group had any one of 19 common invasive procedures. The control group is a 10% random sample. Each control was randomly assigned a surgery date.

Measurements

The outcomes were the presence of persistent opioid use as determined by continued filling of prescriptions for opioids on postoperative days 90, 180, 270, and 365.

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SUBMITTER: Namiranian K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7750291 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature