Thousands of employees being treated for back and neck injuries are receiving high-risk opioid prescriptions funded by workers’ compensation systems. Details: https://t.co/TsAMiu96V8
Thank you to @EwinHannan for the coverage of a new HWL study on early High-Risk Opioid Prescribing and Persistent Opioid Use in WC https://t.co/QNPJBNbBCy
I had the honour of having two oral presentations from my PhD work at @IntPharmacoEpi 16th Asian Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology, held at the University of Tokyo, Japan. It was a great privilege to learn from the leading experts in the field of Pharmacoepidemiology.
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📢 My latest publication! 📚✨
Anticholinergic burden (ACB) and HRQoL in Ethiopia
📊 828 participants
📈 High ACB ➡️ reduced #HRQoL
⬇️ Significant decline in EQ5D index (-0.174) & EQ5D-VAS scores (-9.4)
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Capture, Coding, and Reporting of Health Care and Medicine Information in Australian Workers’ Compensation Systems
Tefera, Yonas Getaye et. al.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 66(5):p e213-e221, May 2024
https://t.co/ZpWaobHiZH
#JOEM
Harmonisation of data collection, data coding and reporting approaches in these schemes will advance understanding of whether the funded healthcare delivery is value-based care or not.
📢 Our paper is published that characterise the data capture, existing coding schemas and reporting approaches of healthcare and medicine data in Australian workers' compensation schemes.
https://t.co/oP7jQITGL8
Moderate certainty evidence showed preoperative opioid use is associated with a reduction in odds of postoperative return-to-work by half in patients with spinal surgery
Pleased to share our systematic review and meta-analysis on preoperative opioid use and postoperative return to work following spinal surgery in workers’ compensation settings is published ahead of print @ International Journal of Surgery.
https://t.co/KSQMHtoquE