Sentences with phrase «opioid prescription within»

All patients included in the study had not filled an opioid prescription within the past six months.

The authors measured the time to opioid cessation for any individual receiving an opioid prescription within 90 days after surgery, with the date of cessation defined by the absence of any opioid prescription within the preceding 90 days.

The study included 39,140 opioid - naive patients, of whom 53 percent received 1 or more opioid prescriptions within 90 days after discharge.

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Within the past 10 years, the prescription of opioids for the treatment of chronic pain has increased and the abuse of opioid medications leading to addiction has been described as epidemic.

A total of 568,612 (56 %) patients received prescriptions for postoperative opioids, 90 % of which were filled within three days of hospital discharge.

He co-authored a study, published online in February in the Clinical Journal of Pain, that followed a group of 176 chronic pain patients in Israel over seven months and found that 44 percent of them stopped taking prescription opioids within seven months of starting medical cannabis.

«Results of our study show within five days of surgery, most patients are experiencing relatively little pain, and yet, most still had well over half of their opioid prescription left,» said study co-author Dr. Elliot Hersh.