Less than 1% of patients who met the criteria for sustained prescription opioid use received their initial opioid prescription after an inpatient procedure, according to a study of the Military Health Data Repository.
“We wanted to study the medical conditions and the scenarios that culminate in long-term prescription opioid use,” said Andrew J. Schoenfeld, MD, assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, in Boston, who was lead author of a research letter on