Open AccessInitial Patterns of Prescription Opioid Supply and Risk of Mortality Among Insured Adults in the United States
Author(s) -
Hilary Aroke,
Ashley Buchanan,
Jeffrey Bratberg,
Joseph W. Hogan,
Josiah D. Rich,
Xuerong Wen,
Stephen Kogut
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of addiction medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.264
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1935-3227
pISSN - 1932-0620
DOI - 10.1097/adm.0000000000000701
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , confidence interval , medical prescription , proportional hazards model , opioid , comorbidity , confounding , cohort study , retrospective cohort study , population , cohort , emergency medicine , demography , environmental health , receptor , sociology , pharmacology
To examine the association between initial patterns of prescription opioid supply (POS) and risk of all-cause mortality among an insured opioid-naïve patient population in the United States (US).