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Chronic Opioid Usage in Surgical Patients in a Large Academic Center.

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Overall prevalence of chronic opioid usage in surgical patients is high with widespread disparity among different sex, age, ethnicity, BMI, and subspecialty groups, and information obtained from this study provides clues to reduce chronic opioid used.
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Objective:The objective of this study is to investigate the prevalence and disparity of chronic opioid usage in surgical patients and the potential risk factors associated with chronic opioid usage.Background:Chronic opioid usage is common in surgical patients; however, the characteristics of opioid

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Chronic Opioid Use After Surgery: Implications for Perioperative Management in the Face of the Opioid Epidemic.

TL;DR: An analysis of the extent to which opioid-sparing perioperative interventions have been shown to reduce the risk of chronic opioid use after surgery and a discussion of future research directions are presented.
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Responsible, Safe, and Effective Prescription of Opioids for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain: American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) Guidelines.

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TL;DR: These guidelines are intended to provide a systematic and standardized approach to this complex and difficult arena of practice, while recognizing that every clinical situation is unique.
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Wide Variation and Overprescription of Opioids After Elective Surgery.

TL;DR: The majority of patients were overprescribed opioids, and significant variations in opioid prescribing practices were seen within each procedure and between the 3 medical centers.
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Defining Optimal Length of Opioid Pain Medication Prescription After Common Surgical Procedures.

TL;DR: Patterns of opioid pain medication prescriptions after common surgical procedures are described to determine the appropriateness of the prescription as indicated by the rate of refills and balance adequate pain management against the duration of treatment.
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Persistent postsurgical pain: risk factors and prevention

TL;DR: Strategies for identification of patients at risk and for prevention and possible treatment of this important entity of chronic pain are outlined.
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Ambulatory Surgery in the United States, 2006

TL;DR: This report presents national estimates of surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed on an ambulatory basis in hospitals and freestanding ambulatory surgery centers in the United States during 2006, based on data collected through the 2006 National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery.
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Explaining odds ratios.

TL;DR: An odds ratio is a measure of association between an exposure and an outcome that represents the odds that an outcome will occur given a particular exposure, compared to the odds of the outcome occurring in the absence of that exposure.
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Trends in opioid prescribing by race/ethnicity for patients seeking care in US emergency departments.

TL;DR: Opioid prescribing for patients making a pain-related visit to the emergency department increased after national quality improvement initiatives in the late 1990s, but differences in opioid prescribing by race/ethnicity have not diminished.
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Long‐term opioid management for chronic noncancer pain

TL;DR: Weak evidence suggests that patients who are able to continue opioids long-term experience clinically significant pain relief, and whether quality of life or functioning improves is inconclusive, due to an insufficient quantity of evidence for oral administration studies and inconclusive statistical findings for transdermal and intrathecal administration studies.
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