| Autor: |
Asfaw, Abay, Boden, Leslie I. |
| Zdroj: |
Occupational & Environmental Medicine; Sep2020, Vol. 77 Issue 9, p648-653, 6p |
| Abstrakt: |
Objectives: To examine the impact of workplace injury on opioid dependence, abuse and overdose (opioid-related morbidity) and if severity of injury increases the hazard of these health effects.Methods: We used MarketScan databases to follow injured and propensity score matched non-injured workers, both without prior opioid-related diagnoses. Using a Cox proportional hazard model, we examined the impact of workplace injury on opioid-related morbidity.Results: The hazard of opioid-related morbidity for injured workers was 1.79 times than that of matched non-injured workers (95% CI 1.89 to 3.60). For medical-only and lost-time injured workers, it was respectively 1.54 (95% CI 1.02 to 2.32) and 2.91 (95% CI 1.75 to 4.84) times that of non-injured workers.Conclusions: Reducing workplace injury or severity of workplace injury, as well as efforts to ensure appropriate opioid prescribing for injured workers, may help to reduce the societal costs of opioid use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: |
Complementary Index |
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