Continued opioid use following an emergency department presentation for low back pain.

Danielle M CoombsChris G MaherMelinda CollettStephanie MathiesonChristina Abdel ShaheedChung-Wei Christine LinGustavo C Machado

Published in: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA (2022)

About one-third of patients who present to the ED with low back pain receive an opioid analgesic prescription on discharge and are taking an opioid analgesic 4 weeks later. These findings justify future research to identify strategies to reduce the risk of long-term opioid use in patients who present to the ED with low back pain.

Keyphrases

emergency department
chronic pain
pain management
neuropathic pain
anti inflammatory
spinal cord injury
case report
gestational age
electronic health record