Opioid use and social disadvantage in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Historically, marginalized patients were prescribed less opioid medication than affluent, white patients. However, because of persistent differential access to nonopioid pain treatments, this direction of disparity in opioid prescribing may have reversed.

Objective

To compare social disadvantage and health in patients with chronic pain who were managed with versus without chronic opioid therapy. It was hypothesized that patients routinely prescribed opioids would be more likely to live in socially disadvantaged communities and report worse health.

Design

Cross-sectional analysis of a retrospective cohort defined from medical records from 2000 to 2019.

Setting

Single tertiary safety net medical center.

Patients

Adult patients with chronic muscu

SUBMITTER: Cheng AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8464618 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature