Cost and quality implications of opioid-based postsurgical pain control using administrative claims data from a large health system: Opioid-Related adverse events and their impact on clinical and economic outcomes

Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 383-391

  Richard Kessler, E ^a   Shah, Manan ^a   Gruschkus, Stephen K ^a   Raju, Aditya ^a  

^a XCENDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse drug reactions; Analgesia; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; BRADYCARDIA; BRADYPNEA; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIRIUM; DIZZINESS; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG USE; FALLING; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; ILEUS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; NERVOUSNESS; OBESITY; OLIGURIA; OPIOID INDUCED EMESIS; PARALYTIC ILEUS; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE VOMITING; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRURITUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIDE EFFECT; SURGICAL PATIENT; URINE RETENTION; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VERTIGO; XEROSTOMIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84879530616     PISSN: 02770008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/phar.1223     Document Type: Article

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