The rates of filled opioid prescriptions for all types of incisional ocular surgery increased over time, according to a study.
Researchers evaluated the rates of filled opioid prescriptions, from 1 day before incisional ocular surgery to 7 days after surgery, in patients who underwent procedures from January 2000 to December 2016. Incisional eye surgery was defined as any surgical code with a scleral or corneal incision.
The study cohort included patients from the Clinformatics Data Mart Database (Optum), a large national U.S. insurers administrative medical claims database. A total of
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