Prescription analgesic medication use among osteoarthritis patients
Zhenzhen Huang,
Xinxin Chen,
Xihong Gan
et al.
Abstract:Objective Pharmacotherapy is the most common strategies to reduce pain for osteoarthritis (OA) patients. To analyze the trend and pattern of prescription analgesic medication use in American OA patients. Besides, our study also tried to figure out the demographic characteristics of opioid use among OA population which may helpful for managing the use of opioids. Methods We included 2214 OA patients from 2007 to 2018. We extracted data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) database. We … Show more
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