Opioid exposure following incisional ophthalmic surgery in previously opioid-naive patients was associated with new persistent opioid use in some patients, according to a study in Ophthalmology.
“Our study shows that new persistent use of opioids occurs after ophthalmic surgeries,” study co-author Maria A. Woodward, MD, MSc, told Healio/OSN.
Woodward and colleagues conducted a retrospective, claims-based cohort study examining 327,379 opioid-naive patients aged 13 years or older who underwent ophthalmic surgery between Jan. 1, 2012, and June 30, 2017.
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