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Opioid prescription at postoperative discharge: a retrospective observational cohort study (2021)
Journal Article
Daliya, P., Adiamah, A., Roslan, F., Theophilidou, E., Knaggs, R., Levy, N., & Lobo, D. (2021). Opioid prescription at postoperative discharge: a retrospective observational cohort study. Anaesthesia, 76(10), 1367-1376. https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.15460

Opioid misuse is now considered a major public health epidemic in North America, with substantial social and financial consequences. As well as socio-economic and commercial drivers, modifiable risk-factors that have resulted in this crisis have been... Read More about Opioid prescription at postoperative discharge: a retrospective observational cohort study.

Opioids and the risk of fracture: a self-controlled case series study in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (2021)
Journal Article
Peach, E., Pearce, F., Gibson, J., Cooper, A., Chen, L.-C., & Knaggs, R. (2021). Opioids and the risk of fracture: a self-controlled case series study in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. American Journal of Epidemiology, 190(7), 1324-1331. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwab042

Self-controlled study designs can be used to assess the association between exposures and acute outcomes while controlling for important confounders. Using routinely collected health data, a self-controlled case series design was used to investigate... Read More about Opioids and the risk of fracture: a self-controlled case series study in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink.