New Persistent Opioid Use After Postoperative Intensive Care in US Veterans.

Karamchandani, Kunal; Pyati, Srinivas; Bryan, William; Pepin, Marc; Lehman, Erik B; Krishnamoorthy, Vijay; Raghunathan, Karthik · JAMA Surg · 2019

retrospective_cohort · Level III

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Abstract

This study uses medical records of more than 800 000 US veterans treated in the intensive care unit after surgery to determine the rate at which these patients developed new persistent opioid use.

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