Objective To describe rates and risk factors for prolonged postoperative use of opioids in
patients who had not previously used opioids and undergoing major elective surgery …

Post-surgical opioid prescribing intended for the short-term management of acute pain may
lead to long-term opioid use. This study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of …

Objective To quantify the effects of varying opioid prescribing patterns after surgery on
dependence, overdose, or abuse in an opioid naive population. Design Retrospective …

Importance Prolonged opioid use after surgery may be associated with opioid dependency
and increased health care use. However, published studies have reported varying estimates …

Physicians, policymakers, and researchers are increasingly focused on finding ways to
decrease opioid use and overdose in the United States both of which have sharply …

Importance Despite increased focus on reducing opioid prescribing for long-term pain, little
is known regarding the incidence and risk factors for persistent opioid use after surgery …

Background While persistent opioid use after surgery has been the subject of a large
number of studies, it is unknown how much variability in the definition of persistent use …

Importance Patterns of preoperative opioid use are not well characterized across different
surgical services, and studies in this patient population have lacked important self-reported …

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine preoperative patient characteristics
associated with postoperative outpatient opioid use and assess the frequency of …

Objective. This study aims to determine 1) the epidemiology of perioperative opioid use; and
2) the association between patterns of preoperative opioid use and time-to-cessation of …