Abstracts tagged "opioids and utilization review"

Abstract Number: 2956 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Changing Trends and Prescribing Patterns in Opioid-Treated Primary Care Patients with Non-Cancer Pain over a 10-Year Period
Meghna Jani, Belay Birlie Yimer, Therese Sheppard, Mark Lunt and William G Dixon, Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: The opioid epidemic in the U.S. has led to similar concerns about prescribed opioids in the U.K. In new users, the rate of escalation…