Open AccessOpioid Use Is Associated With Higher Health Care Costs and Emergency Encounters in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Author(s) -
Kristen Alley,
Anand Singla,
Anita Afzali
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
inflammatory bowel diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.932
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1536-4844
pISSN - 1078-0998
DOI - 10.1093/ibd/izz100
Subject(s) - inflammatory bowel disease , medicine , medical prescription , disease , health care , opioid , emergency department , crohn's disease , intensive care medicine , medical emergency , pharmacology , psychiatry , receptor , economics , economic growth
Using Truven Health MarketScan Databases, we examined prescription opioid use in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and the resultant increase in use of emergency services and rise in healthcare costs among these patients.
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