Jacob Gorbaty, Susan M Odum, Meghan K Wally, Rachel B Seymour, Nady Hamid, Joseph R Hsu, Michael Beuhler, Michael J Bosse, Michael Gibbs, Christopher Griggs, Steven Jarrett, Daniel Leas, Tamar Roomian, Michael Runyon, Animita Saha, Bradley Watling, Stephen Wyatt, Ziqing Yu
Purpose: To quantify the prevalence of opioid and benzodiazepine prescriptions for patients with rotator cuff disease across a large health care system and to describe evidence-based risk factors for opioid use within this population. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study at a major health care system of all patients with qualifying diagnostic codes. Emergency department, urgent care, and outpatient encounters between January and December 2016 for an acute rotator cuff tear, listed as the primary diagnosis, were included...
April 2021: Arthroscopy, sports medicine, and rehabilitation