Association of injury after prescription opioid initiation with risk for opioid-related adverse events among older Medicare beneficiaries in the United States: a nested case-control study - Wei YJJ, Chen C, Cheng TYD, Schmidt SO, Fillingim RB, Winterstein AG.

BACKGROUND: Injury, prevalent and potentially associated with prescription opioid use among older adults, has been implicated as a warning sign of serious opioid-related adverse events (ORAEs) including opioid misuse, dependence, and poisoning, but this as...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news