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OCLC number
1334670994
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Author
Lakha, Shehnaz Fatima.
Title
Demography and Drug Prescription Pattern of Injured Workers Referred to a Tertiary Care Chronic Pain Clinic by Workplace Safety and Insurance Board Staff: A Pilot Study.
Degree
MAST -- University of Toronto, 2014.
Publisher
[Toronto, Ontario] : University of Toronto, 2014
Description
1 online resource
Abstract
Opioid prescribing within the workers' compensation system in general has been a cause for concern. The objective of the study was to estimate the prevalence of opioid users among injured workers, referred at a Tertiary Care Pain Clinic, in 2008-2009. A cross-sectional retrospective study of 110 consecutive workers; male/female ratio was 2.3:1; mean age 45.5 years; mean pain ratings were 7.1±1.8. 21% of the workers were diagnosed with a biomedical problem (Group I), 51% with medical/psychological factors (Group II) and 25.5% had identifiable psychological factors but no physical pathology (Group III). Opioids were prescribed in 81.8%; of those 32.2% were on >200mg of daily morphine or equivalent (MED). A higher proportion of opioid users were in Group II and Group III than Group I. The vast majority of referred injured workers in this study were on opioid therapy with 1 in 3 exceeding the "watchful" dose of 200 mg MED.
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Subject
Chronic non-cancer pain
Injured workers
Prescription patterns