Assessing risk for drug overdose in a national cohort: Role for both daily and total opioid dose?

Journal of Pain

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 318-325

  Liang, Yuanyuan ^a,b   Turner, Barbara J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesics; chronic pain; dose response relationship; drug; opioid; overdose

Indexed keywords

OPIATE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHINE EQUIVALENT DOSE; PHARMACOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESCRIPTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DOSE RESPONSE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; RISK; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG OVERDOSE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926419551     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2014.11.007     Document Type: Article

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