Persistent Opioid Use after Ophthalmic Surgery in Opioid-Naive Patients and Associated Risk Factors.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine the rate and risk factors for new persistent opioid use after ophthalmic surgery in the United States.

Design

Retrospective claims-based cohort analysis.

Participants

Opioid-naive patients 13 years of age and older who underwent incisional ophthalmic surgery between January 1, 2012, and June 30, 2017, and were included in Optum's de-identified Clinformatics Data Mart database.

Methods

New persistent opioid use was defined as filling an opioid prescription in the 90-day and the 91- to 180-day periods after the surgical procedure. The outcome variable was an initial perioperative opioid prescription fill. Rates of new persistent opioid use were calculated, and multivariate logistic regression models were used to identify variables increasing

SUBMITTER: Ung C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8384648 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature