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Impact of Prescribing on New Persistent Opioid Use After Cardiothoracic Surgery [1]

Submitted by erobinson [2] on Fri, 2019-10-25 12:57

Persistent opioid use (>90 days postoperatively) in this Medicare database study identified modifiable factors, including prescription size and preoperative prescription refills, among other features, that could be targeted in order to reduce opioid dependency.

Source name: 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Resource link: 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2019.06.019 [3]
Subspecialty(ies): 
Cardiac [4]
Critical Care [5]
Thoracic [6]
Author(s): 
Alexander A. Brescia, Jennifer F. Waljee, Hsou Mei Hu, Michael J. Englesbe, Chad M. Brummett, Pooja A. Lagisetty, Kiran H. Lagisetty
Taxonomy2018 vocabulary term reference: 
Critical Care [7]
Source URL:https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/impact-prescribing-new-persistent-opioid-use-after-cardiothoracic-surgery

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[1] https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/impact-prescribing-new-persistent-opioid-use-after-cardiothoracic-surgery [2] https://www.ctsnet.org/home/erobinson [3] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2019.06.019 [4] https://www.ctsnet.org/categories/cardiac [5] https://www.ctsnet.org/subspecialtyies/critical-care [6] https://www.ctsnet.org/categories/thoracic [7] https://www.ctsnet.org/taxonomy2018/critical-care