Information on doctor and pharmacy shopping for opioids adds little to the identification of presumptive opioid abuse disorders in health insurance claims data

BACKGROUND: Doctor and pharmacy shopping (“Shopping”) for opioids is related to opioid abuse and is associated with opioid overdose and death. Lacking identifiers for prescribers and pharmacies, many data resources (notably the US FDA’s Sentinel System) cannot evaluate Shopping. We used data in whic...

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Autores principales: Walker, Alexander M, Weatherby, Lisa B, Cepeda, M Soledad, Bradford, Daniel C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2019
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6682178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31534380
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/SAR.S201725

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6682178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31534380
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/SAR.S201725

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