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SUBMITTER: Siglin J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7416726 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The American journal on addictions 20200322 4
<h4>Background and objectives</h4>Perioperative exposure to opioids is associated with adverse outcomes. We aim to determine the associations between surgery and subsequent opioid overdose, an acute event, and a new diagnosis of opioid use disorder (OUD), a chronic relapsing disease, in parallel.<h4>Methods</h4>This retrospective cohort study of US veterans used surgery as exposure and the two outcomes were (1) occurrence of overdose and (2) new diagnosis of OUD in the first postoperative year. ...[more]