Association of Occupational and Physical Therapy With Duration of Prescription Opioid Use After Hip or Knee Arthroplasty: A Retrospective Cohort Study of Medicare Enrollees.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To establish whether nonpharmacologic interventions, such as occupational and physical therapy, were associated with a shorter duration of prescription opioid use after hip or knee arthroplasty.

Design

This retrospective cohort study used data from a national 5% Medicare sample database between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2015.

Setting

Home health or outpatient.

Participants

Adults 66 years or older with an inpatient total hip (n=4272) or knee (n=9796) arthroplasty (N=14,068).

Interventions

We dichotomized patients according to whether they had received any nonpharmacologic pain intervention within 1 year after hospital discharge (eg, occupational or physical therapy evaluation). Using Cox proportional hazards, we treated exposure to nonph

SUBMITTER: Pritchard KT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8263496 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature