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SUBMITTER: King WC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5568488 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
King Wendy C WC Chen Jia-Yuh JY Belle Steven H SH Courcoulas Anita P AP Dakin Gregory F GF Flum David R DR Hinojosa Marcelo W MW Kalarchian Melissa A MA Mitchell James E JE Pories Walter J WJ Spaniolas Konstantinos K Wolfe Bruce M BM Yanovski Susan Z SZ Engel Scott G SG Steffen Kristine J KJ
Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery 20170407 8
<h4>Background</h4>Limited evidence suggests bariatric surgery may not reduce opioid analgesic use, despite improvements in pain.<h4>Objective</h4>To determine if use of prescribed opioid analgesics changes in the short and long term after bariatric surgery and to identify factors associated with continued and postsurgery initiated use.<h4>Setting</h4>Ten U.S. hospitals.<h4>Methods</h4>The Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery-2 is an observational cohort study. Assessments were conducted ...[more]