OPIOID USE FOLLOWING ELECTIVE SURGERY IN AN AUSTRALIAN ADULT COHORT

• At: AbuDhabi (United Arab Emirates) (2019)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: POS-SAPS-023
• By: LIM, Renly (University of South Australia, Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre, Australia)
• Co-author(s): Renly Lim: Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
  Elizabeth Roughead: Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
  Emmae Ramsay: Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
  Anna Moffat: Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
  Nicole Pratt: Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
  
• Abstract:

  Background

  In Australia, it is unclear whether initial opioid use to manage acute post-surgical pain leads to chronic opioid use.

  Methods

  This is a retrospective cohort study using administrative health claims database from the Australian Government Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA). DVA gold card holders aged between 18 and 100 years who were

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