Researchers evaluated opioid use disorder hospitalizations and associated healthcare utilization outcomes in patients with common musculoskeletal diseases.
About half of waivered clinicians prescribe buprenorphine for opioid use disorder and most treat at levels below their patient limits.
The percentage of those receiving opioid prescriptions following arthroplasty has increased.
A targeted program that allows all prescribers to access real-time data and track and compare their own performance with those of others can improve compliance with opioid prescribing guidelines.
Researchers assessed pain relief and functional improvement in patients receiving opioids for knee or hip osteoarthritis.
From 2005 to 2016, skeletal muscle relaxant (SMR) use increased in the United States.
In 2015 to 2018, 10.7% of US adults aged 20 years or older used one or more prescription pain medications.
Evidence suggests that the prevalence of chronic opioid use among patients with RA has increased over the last decade.
Researchers assessed the effect of the opioid epidemic in Finnish patients with early inflammatory arthritides.
Investigators addressed the treatment of acute gout flares in the emergency department.
