Increased Healthcare Utilization and Expenditures Associated With Chronic Opioid Therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the association of the transition from incident opioid use to incident chronic opioid therapy (COT) with the trajectories of healthcare utilization and expenditures.

Study design

We used a longitudinal, retrospective cohort design, including seven 120-day time periods covering preindex (t₁, t₂, and t₃), index (t₄), and postindex (t₅, t₆, and t₇) periods with data from adults aged 28 to 63 years at the index date, without cancer, and continuously enrolled in a primary commercial insurance plan (N = 20,201).

Methods

Multivariable analyses were performed on utilization (population-averaged [PA] logistic regression), expenditures (PA generalized estimating equations), and exp

SUBMITTER: Thornton D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8194048 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature