Articles: opioid.
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To evaluate the degree to which differences in incidence of mortality and serious adverse events exist across patient race and ethnicity among Veterans Health Administration (VHA) patients receiving outpatient opioid prescriptions and who have similar predicted risks of adverse outcomes. Patients were assigned scores via the VHA Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM), a model used to predict the risk of experiencing overdose- or suicide-related health care events or death. Individuals with the highest STORM risk scores are targeted for case review. ⋯ Our results suggest that relying on the STORM model to identify patients who may benefit from an interdisciplinary case review may identify patients with clinically meaningful differences in outcome risk across race and ethnicity.
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J Coll Physicians Surg Pak · Feb 2024
Randomized Controlled TrialAnalgaesic Effect of Erector Spinae Plane Block in Coronary Surgery: A Randomised Controlled Trial.
To investigate the effect of preemptive erector spinae plane (ESP) block application on postoperative pain scores and opioid demand in off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. ⋯ Coronary artery bypass surgery, Erector spinae plane block, Acute postoperative pain.