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Mashup Score: 4Opioid use for migraines opens door to future ED visits - 3 year(s) ago
Patients with migraine who were given opioids in the ED were more likely to return to the ED in the next 6 months compared with patients who were not prescribed opioids, according to findings from single-center, retrospective cohort study.Headache is consistently one of the top five reasons for ED visits in the United States, according to Qiujun Shao MS, a graduate teaching assistant at the
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Mashup Score: 0
Background: Psychiatric co-occurring disorders among individuals with opioid use disorder has primarily focused on epidemiological surveys of patients in contin…
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Mashup Score: 0Risk of Persistent Opioid Use following Major Surgery in Matched Samples of Patients with and without Cancer - 4 year(s) ago
Background: The opioid crisis has reached epidemic proportions, yet risk of persistent opioid use following curative intent surgery for cancer and factors influencing this risk are not well understood. Methods: We used electronic health record data from 3,901 adult patients who received a prescription for an opioid analgesic related to hysterectomy or large bowel surgery from January 1, 2013,…
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Mashup Score: 0Risk of Persistent Opioid Use following Major Surgery in Matched Samples of Patients with and without Cancer - 4 year(s) ago
Background: The opioid crisis has reached epidemic proportions, yet risk of persistent opioid use following curative intent surgery for cancer and factors influencing this risk are not well understood. Methods: We used electronic health record data from 3,901 adult patients who received a prescription for an opioid analgesic related to hysterectomy or large bowel surgery from January 1, 2013,…
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Mashup Score: 1Initiation of Intrathecal Drug Delivery Dramatically Reduces Systemic Opioid Use in Patients With Advanced Cancer - 4 year(s) ago
Objectives Pain is common in cancer, affecting more than 70% of patients with advanced disease. Intrathecal drug delivery systems (IDDS) are a well‐established treatment for patients with refractory…
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Mashup Score: 0AI predicts postoperative opioid use - 4 year(s) ago
An artificial intelligence tool based on data from patients’ electronic medical records correctly identified which patients would need high doses of opioids after surgery, according to findings presented at Anesthesiology 2020.“Being able to target the right treatment to the right patient is important to not only to reduce opioid use, but also to ensure that patients receive the
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Mashup Score: 0Spinal Cord Stim Cuts Chronic Pain and Opioid Use - 4 year(s) ago
Real-world data in multiple etiologies shows clinically significant relief
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Mashup Score: 0First national survey on opioids prescribing practices of Canadian pediatric surgeons - 4 year(s) ago
Prescription opioid misuse has become a public health concern globally. In Canada, little is known about the national prescription patterns in children. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the opioid prescribing practices of pediatric surgeons in Canada.
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Opioid use among women trying to conceive may be associated with a lower chance of pregnancy, suggests a National Institutes of Health study. Moreover, opioid use in early pregnancy may be associated with a greater chance of pregnancy loss. The study appears in Epidemiology.
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Mashup Score: 2Quality Measures to Reduce Opioid Use After Common Soft Tissue Hand and Wrist Procedures - 4 year(s) ago
To develop quality measures that are clinically important, feasible, usable, and scientifically acceptable for reducing opioid use after soft tissue procedures of the hand and wrist, and which can be used to evaluate quality in hand surgery.
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#OpioidUse for #Migraines opens door to future #EDvisits Lewis Nelson, MD William Eggleston, PharmD, DABAT https://t.co/6EeZg2WGsZ @GoHealio