• Br J Anaesth · Aug 2022

    Association between prescription opioid use and unplanned intensive care unit admission and mortality in the adult population of the Netherlands: a registry study.

    • Ajda Bedene, Willem M Lijfering, M Sesmu Arbous, Frits R Rosendaal, Albert Dahan, and van DorpEveline L AELADepartment of Anesthesiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands. Electronic address: E.L.A.van_Dorp@lumc.nl..
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
    • Br J Anaesth. 2022 Aug 1; 129 (2): 254-262.

    BackgroundOpioid overdoses are increasing in the Netherlands, and there may be other harms associated with prescription opioid use. We investigated the relationship between prescription opioid use and unplanned ICU admission and death.MethodsThis is an analysis of linked government registries of the adult Dutch population (age ≥18 years) alive on January 1, 2018. The co-primary outcomes were ICU admission and death up to 1 year. Crude event rates and event-specific adjusted hazard rates (aHRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated using multivariable analysis for people with and without exposure to an opioid prescription.ResultsWe included 13 813 173 individuals, of whom 32 831 were admitted to the ICU and 152 259 died during the 1 year follow-up. Rates of ICU admission and death amongst people who reimbursed an opioid prescription were 5.87 and 62.2 per 1000 person-years, and rates of ICU admission and death in those without a prescription were 2.03 and 6.34, respectively. Exposed individuals had a higher rate of both ICU admission (aHR 2.53; 95% CI: 2.45-2.60) and death (aHR 7.11; 95% CI: 7.02-7.19) compared with unexposed individuals. Both outcomes were more frequent amongst prescription opioid users across a range of subgroups.ConclusionsThe rate of ICU admission and death was higher amongst prescription opioid users than non-users in the full cohort and in subgroups. These findings represent an important public health concern.Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

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