Lack of Association between the Use of Nerve Blockade and the Risk of Persistent Opioid Use among Patients Undergoing Shoulder Arthroplasty: Evidence from the Marketscan Database

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1014-1020

  Mueller, Kathryn G ^a   Memtsoudis, Stavros G ^b   Mariano, Edward R ^c,d   Baker, Laurence C ^c,e   Mackey, Sean ^c   Sun, Eric C ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; HYDROCODONE; HYDROMORPHONE; METHADONE; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; OXYCODONE; OXYMORPHONE; PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY; SHOULDER HEMIARTHROPLASTY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SURGICAL PATIENT; TOTAL SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY; FACTUAL DATABASE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SHOULDER REPLACEMENT; TRENDS;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, SHOULDER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85025814723     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000002031     Document Type: Article

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