Development of Persistent Opioid Use After Cardiac Surgery

The overuse of opioids for acute pain management has led to an epidemic of persistent opioid use.To determine the proportion of opioid-naive patients who develop persistent opioid use after cardiac surgery and investigate the association between the initial amount of opioids prescribed at discharge and the likelihood of developing new persistent opioid use.This retrospective cohort study used data from a national administrative claims database...