Weiner, Scott G Kobayashi, Kimiyoshi Reynolds, Joshua Chan, Kit Kelly, Rodd Wakeman, Sarah Reddy, Prabashni Young, Leonard D
Published in
Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.)
To determine the effect of one-click integration of a state's prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) on the number of PDMP searches and opioid prescriptions, stratified by specialty. Our large health system worked with the state department of public health to integrate the PDMP with the electronic health record (EHR), which enabled providers t...
Sowicz, Timothy Joseph Hausmann, Leslie R M
Published in
Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.)
Opioid specialty clinics have emerged as an approach for mitigating the risks associated with opioid therapies. Many opioid specialty clinics within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have been described in the extant literature, yet veterans' experiences of these remain absent. This research study was undertaken to describe veterans' response...
Alam, Syed Mobashshir Buaisha, Haitam Qasswal, Mohammed Ashfaq, Muhammad Zubair Walters, Ryan William Chandra, Subhash
Published in
Internal and emergency medicine
The recovery of gastrointestinal functions is an important determinant of course of acute pancreatitis and the timing of hospital discharge. Here, we evaluated association between fluid resuscitation volume and opioid use with clinically significant ileus development in patients with acute pancreatitis. Consecutive adults admitted with acute pancre...
Ehwerhemuepha, Louis Donaldson, Candice D Kain, Zeev N Luong, Vivian Fortier, Michelle A Feaster, William Weiss, Michael Tomaszewski, Daniel Yang, Sun Phan, Michael
...
Published in
Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
This study examined the association between race/ethnicity and health insurance payer type with pediatric opioid and non-opioid ordering in an inpatient hospital setting. Cross-sectional inpatient encounter data from June 2013 to June 2018 was retrieved from a pediatric children's hospital in Southern California (N = 55,944), and statistical analys...
Broens, Suzanne J L Prins, Susan A de Kleer, Dorinne Niesters, Marieke Dahan, Albert van Velzen, Monique
Published in
Journal of clinical monitoring and computing
Although postoperative adverse respiratory events, defined by a decrease in respiratory rate (RR) and/or a drop in oxygen saturation (SpO2), occur frequently, many of such events are missed. The purpose of the current study was to assess whether continuous monitoring of the integrated pulmonary index (IPI), a composite index of SpO2, RR, end-tidal ...
Jackson, Nicholas A Gan, Tong Davenport, Daniel L Oyler, Doug R Ebbitt, Laura M Evers, B Mark Bhakta, Avinash S
Published in
Surgical endoscopy
Opioid (OPD), sedative (SDT), and antidepressant (ADM) prescribing has increased dramatically over the last 20 years. This study evaluated preoperative OPD, SDT, and ADM use on hospital costs in patients undergoing colorectal resection at a single institution. This study was a retrospective record review. The local ACS-NSQIP database was queried fo...
Miller, Henry Bush, Kathryn Mary Betances, Avril Kota, Rasagnya Wu, Samantha De Leo, Nicholas Gaughan, John Bonawitz, Steven
Published in
Journal of plastic, reconstructive & aesthetic surgery : JPRAS
There appears to be an association between preoperative opioid use and postoperative complications. We sought to determine whether patients with a history of chronic opiate use (defined as 3 months or more of sustained use) prior to undergoing free flap surgery have higher rates of 30-day complications. A retrospective review of patients undergoing...
Dahlman, Disa Ohlsson, Henrik Edwards, Alexis C. Sundquist, Jan Håkansson, Anders Sundquist, Kristina
Published in
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
Background Opioid overdose (OD) and opioid OD death are major health threats to people with opioid use disorder (OUD). Socioeconomic factors are underexplored potential determinants of opioid OD. In this study, we assessed socioeconomic and other factors and their associations with incident and fatal opioid OD, in a cohort consisting of 22,079 indi...
Howard, Susanna Davis Agarwal, Anish Delgado, Kit Rodriguez-Caceres, Edward Joshi, Disha Marcotte, Paul Ozturk, Ali Petrov, Dmitriy Schuster, James Welch, William
...
Published in
Surgical Neurology International
Background: Diversion of prescription opioids pills is a significant contributor to opioid misuse and the opioid epidemic. The goal of this study was to determine the frequency and quantity of excess opioid pills among patients undergoing spine surgery. Further, we wanted to determine the frequency of appropriate opioid disposal. Methods: This was ...
Gwam, Chukwuweike U Emara, Ahmed K Chughtai, Noor Javed, Sameer Luo, T David Wang, Kevin Y Chughtai, Morad O'Gara, Tadhg Plate, Johannes F
Published in
World Journal of Orthopedics
BACKGROUND Non-emergent low-back pain (LBP) is one of the most prevalent presenting complaints to the emergency department (ED) and has been shown to contribute to overcrowding in the ED as well as diverting attention away from more serious complaints. There has been an increasing focus in current literature regarding ED admission and opioid prescr...
