Health costs of women with chronic overlapping pain conditions by opioid and complementary and integrative health use.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate differences in average annual health care expenditures of adult women with chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs) by pain treatment modality as follows: (1) no long-term opioid or complementary and integrative health (CIH) use; (2) CIH only use; (3) long-term opioid only use; and (4) long-term opioid and CIH use.

Data source

Cross-sectional Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data (2012-2016).

Study design

We estimated differences between average annual expenditures of adult women with COPCs by their use of long-term opioids and CIH modalities. Generalized linear regression with a log link function was used to estimate adjusted marginal effects in annual expenditures. The distribution family was chosen based on Modified Park Tests. We controlle

SUBMITTER: Quinlan TAG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8586481 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature