Lack of Association between the Use of Nerve Blockade and the Risk of Postoperative Chronic Opioid Use among Patients Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty: Evidence from the Marketscan Database

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 999-1007

  Sun, Eric C ^a   Bateman, Brian T ^b   Memtsoudis, Stavros G ^c   Neuman, Mark D ^d   Mariano, Edward R ^a,e   Baker, Laurence C ^a,f  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^f NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUMBAR PLEXUS BLOCK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PERIPHERAL NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; FACTUAL DATABASE; KNEE REPLACEMENT; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85018854302     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000001943     Document Type: Article

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