Estimating the proportion of patients who transition to long-term opioid use following oxycodone initiation in the emergency department.
Jennie P NguyenAndrew M HardingShaun Lawrence GreenePublished in: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA (2020)
Modelling opioid use behaviour in an ED population demonstrated the potential development of unintentional long-term opioid use, and associated harms. Prospective study is required to fully understand trajectories of patients dispensed outpatient therapy from Australian EDs.