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.
<h4>Background</h4>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 association has not been em...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2022-09-01
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Series: | PLoS Medicine |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004101 |