Association of Opioid Consumption Profiles After Hospitalization With Risk of Adverse Health Care Events.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Although better pain management has guided policies for opioid use over the past few decades, evidence is limited regarding how patterns of use are associated with the risk of potentially avoidable opioid-related adverse events.

Objective

To estimate the risk of harms associated with opioid dose and duration of use, and to ascertain whether the risk is modified by treatment indication and age.

Design, setting, and participants

This ad hoc cohort study followed up patients who were enrolled in a cluster randomized trial of medication reconciliation between October 1, 2014, and November 30, 2016, 12 months after they were discharged from the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. To be eligible for this study, patients needed to have fil

SUBMITTER: Kurteva S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8132136 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature