Effect of preoperative opioid exposure on healthcare utilization and expenditures following elective abdominal surgery

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 265, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 715-721

  Waljee, Jennifer F ^a   Cron, David C ^b   Steiger, Rena M ^a   Zhong, Lin ^a   Englesbe, Michael J ^a   Brummett, Chad M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

costs; discharge; length of stay; morbidity; narcotic; opioid; readmission; surgery

Indexed keywords

OPIATE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HERNIOPLASTY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCRIPTION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; REHABILITATION CARE; ABDOMEN; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL COST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85011665446     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000002117     Document Type: Article

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