Burden of opioid use for pain management among adult herpes zoster patients in the US and the potential impact of vaccination

Burden of opioid use for pain management among adult herpes zoster patients in the US and the potential impact of vaccination

The goal of this research was to describe treatment patterns, health-care resource utilization, and costs for herpes zoster (HZ)-related pain, and to estimate the potential impact of recombinant zoster vaccine (RZV) on avoided HZ cases and HZ-related pain prescriptions. This retrospective claims dat...

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Main Authors: Jean-Etienne Poirrier, Jessica K. DeMartino, Saurabh Nagar, Justin Carrico, Katherine Hicks, Juliana Meyers, Jeffrey Stoddard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2022-11-01
Series:Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
Subjects:
herpes zoster
herpes zoster vaccination
medical claims database analysis
opioid prescription
painkillers
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2022.2040328

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2022.2040328

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