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ArticlePharmacy (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Association of Average Daily Morphine Milligram Equivalents and Falls in Older Adult Chronic Opioid Users.

Stephanie Hwang, Tamera D Hughes, Joshua Niznik, Stefanie P Ferreri

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Article in Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stephanie HwangDivision of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Tamera D HughesDivision of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Joshua NiznikDivision of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Stefanie P FerreriDivision of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1819-9631
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

ACL HHS U01CE002955CDC HHS 5U01CE002955-02
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Opioids remain commonly prescribed in older adults, despite the known association with falls and fall-related injuries. This retrospective cohort study sought to determine the association of opioid use and falls in older adult opioid users. Using a one-year lookback period in electronic health records, daily morphine milligram equivalents (MMEs) were calculated using prescription orders. Fall history was based on patient self-reporting. A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to identify the threshold of average daily MMEs at which the likelihood of falls was increased. Older opioid users were most often women and White, with 30% having fallen in the prior year. In ROC analyses (n = 590), the threshold where fall risk increased was 37 MMEs (

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fallsmorphine milligram equivalentolder adultsopioids

Identifiers

PMID38668088
PMCPMC11054049
OpenAlexW4393854373

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Registered trials

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