ArticleAmerican journal of accountable care2018
Increased Healthcare Utilization and Expenditures Associated With Chronic Opioid Therapy.
Article in American journal of accountable care, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Expenditures Associated with Prescription Opioid Use in Older Adults with Non-cancer Chronic Pain.Drugs & aging · 2026Article
- Healthcare resource utilisation and cost analysis associated with opioid analgesic use for non-cancer pain: A case-control, retrospective study between 2005 and 2015.British journal of pain · 2022Article
- Health Costs of Older Opioid Users with Pain and Comorbid Hypercholesterolemia or Hypertension in the United States.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectivesTo assess the association of the transition from incident opioid use to incident chronic opioid therapy (COT) with the trajectories of healthcare utilization and expenditures. STUDY
designWe used a longitudinal, retrospective cohort design, including seven 120-day time periods covering preindex (t
methodsMultivariable analyses were performed on utilization (population-averaged [PA] logistic regression), expenditures (PA generalized estimating equations), and expenditure estimates (counterfactual prediction). The data used were from a commercial claims database (10% random sample from the IQVIA Real-World Data Adjudicated Claims - US database) from 2006-2015.
resultsPatients on COT were more likely to use inpatient services (adjusted odds ratio, 1.11; 95% CI, 1.01-1.21) compared with those who did not. Although expenditures peaked during the index period (t
conclusionsThe period after incident opioid prescription but before transition to COT is an important time for payers to intervene.
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34124532PMC8194048W3168279082What OpenQuestion holds
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