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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Main Authors: Yu-Jung Jenny Wei, Cheng Chen, Ting-Yuan David Cheng, Siegfried O Schmidt, Roger B Fillingim, Almut G Winterstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-09-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004101