Time Trends in Opioid Use by Dementia Severity in Long-Term Care Nursing Home Residents.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Current information on opioid use in nursing home residents, particularly those with dementia, is unknown. We examined the temporal trends in opioid use by dementia severity and the association of dementia severity with opioid use in long-term care nursing home residents.

Design

Repeated measures cross-sectional study.

Setting

Long-term care nursing homes.

Participants

Using 20% Minimum Data Set (MDS) and Medicare claims from 2011-2017, we included long-term care residents (n = 734,739) from each year who had 120 days of consecutive stay. In a secondary analysis, we included residents who had an emergency department visit for a fracture (n = 12,927).

Measurements

Dementia was classified as no, mild, moderate, and severe based on the first MDS a

SUBMITTER: Mehta HB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7765734 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature