Opioid therapy for nonspecific low back pain and the outcome of chronic work loss.
February 13, 2009 by admin
Opioid therapy for nonspecific low back pain and the outcome of chronic work loss.
Authors: Volinn E, Fargo JD, Fine PG Outcomes of opioid therapy for noncancer pain remain to be more fully explored. Loss of work is among these outcomes. Especially when work loss becomes “chronic” (persists 90 days), it has profound psycho-social repercussions that compound suffering of those already in pain. Furthermore, costs escalate as work loss persists. We thus explored associations between opioid therapy for back pain and chronic work loss. Data consisted of workers compensation claims for nonspecific low back pain. We used multivariate analyses to control for diverse covariates. Workers with no opioid prescriptions constituted the reference group. Findings included the following: compared with the (no opioid) reference group, odds of chronic work loss were six times greater f…
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