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Incidence of persistent opioid use following traumatic injury: an infographic
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  1. Matthew C Mauck1,
  2. Eric S Schwenk2 and
  3. Rajnish K Gupta3
  1. 1 Anesthesiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
  2. 2 Anesthesiology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  3. 3 Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Rajnish K Gupta, Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA; raj.gupta{at}vumc.org

https://doi.org/10.1136/rapm-2023-104812

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    Summary

    Insurance claims data from 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2020 were used to evaluate the relationship between specific traumatic injuries and new persistent opioid use as compared with non-traumatic major or minor surgery.1 Three categories of traumatic injury were evaluated: burn, motor vehicle collisions (MVCs), and orthopedic trauma. New persistent opioid use was defined as receiving ≥1 opioid prescription 90–180 days following the injury in a patient with no opioid prescriptions in the prior year. Results showed that there was an increased incidence of new persistent opioid use of 12% in burn injury patients, 16% in patients hospitalized after a MVC, and 20% in patients hospitalized after orthopedic injury. When comparing to other surgical types, the rate of persistent opioid use was 19% in the all trauma cohort versus 13% in non-traumatic major surgery and 9% in non-traumatic minor surgery. Understanding rates of persistent opioid use among common traumas is helpful to effect positive change and improved pain management strategies for trauma survivors.

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    Acknowledgments

    We would like to acknowledge Jim Snively, artist, of Pittsburgh, PA, for graphic design of this infographic.

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      2. Mauck MC ,
      3. Zhao Y ,
      4. Goetzinger AM , et al
      . Incidence of persistent opioid use following traumatic injury. Reg Anesth Pain Med 2024;49:79–86. doi:10.1136/rapm-2022-103662
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    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests RKG and ESS are co-associate editors for Social Media in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. ESS is an editor for Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. RKG is a director-at-large for the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Board of Directors.

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      Incidence of persistent opioid use following traumatic injury
      Matthew C Mauck Ying Zhao Amy M Goetzinger Andrew S Tungate Alex B Spencer Asim Lal Chloe E Barton Francesca Beaudoin Samuel A McLean
      Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine 2023; 49 79-86 Published Online First: 26 Jun 2023. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2022-103662