Opioid prescriptions in canadian workers' compensation claimants: Prescription trends and associations between early prescription and future recovery

Spine

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 525-531

  Gross, Douglas P ^a   Stephens, Brian ^b   Bhambhani, Yagesh ^a   Haykowsky, Mark ^a   Bostick, Geoff P ^a   Rashiq, Saifudin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Workers' Compensation Board Alberta   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early opioid; Injured worker; Narcotic; Pain; Work related injury

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; NARCOTIC AGENT; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BURN; COMPENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISLOCATION; DRUG INFORMATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPRAIN; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONVALESCENCE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ADULT; ALBERTA; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PAIN; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 65549083446     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181971dea     Document Type: Article

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