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

Worldwide, 80% of patients who undergo surgery receive opioid analgesics as the
fundamental agent for pain relief. However, the irrational use of opioids leads to excessive …

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between hearing aids (HAs) and time to diagnosis
of Alzheimer disease (AD) or dementia, anxiety or depression, and injurious falls among …

Opioid use disorder, a major source of morbidity and mortality globally, is regularly linked to
opioids given around the time of surgery. Perioperative period, however, is markedly …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the rate of opioid use for gynecologic surgical procedures and to
investigate persistent opioid use among those women who received an initial opioid …

Background In the setting of America's opioid epidemic, judicious postoperative opioid
prescribing is important. Gynecologists lack standard guidelines about postoperative opioid …

Objective: The aim of this research was to study the long-term risk of de novo mental health
conditions in women who underwent hysterectomy with bilateral ovarian conservation …

Purpose: Prescription opioid use is increasing, leading to increased addiction and mortality.
Postoperative care is often the first exposure to opioids of a patient but little data exist on …

Objective Deaths from prescription opioid overdose have quadrupled in the past 15 years,
and no studies have evaluated appropriate opioid prescribing after cardiac surgery. The aim …

Background Women with endometriosis are prescribed opioids for pain relief but may be
vulnerable to chronic opioid use given their comorbidity profile. Methods A cohort study was …