The Effect of State-Level Prescription Opioid Legislation on Patient Outcomes After Lumbar Tubular Microdecompression

EC Beck, JC White, AK Gowd, TD Luo… - International Journal of …, 2022 - ijssurgery.com
Background In the United States, a statewide legislation titled the Strengthen Opioid Misuse
Prevention (STOP) Act was enacted in 2017 to limit prescription opioid use and reduce …

Opioid consumption patterns after lumbar microdiscectomy or decompression

F Lovecchio, A Premkumar, JG Stepan, D Mejia… - Spine, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. Prospective observational study Objective. The aim of this study was to record
daily opioid use and pain levels after 1-level lumbar decompression or microdiscectomy …

[HTML][HTML] The change in postoperative opioid prescribing after lumbar decompression surgery following state-level opioid prescribing reform

RD Winkelman, MD Kavanagh, JE Tanenbaum… - … of Neurosurgery: Spine, 2021 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE On August 31, 2017, the state of Ohio implemented legislation limiting the
dosage and duration of opioid prescriptions. Despite the widespread adoption of such …

Patient-Reported Outcomes and Reoperation Rates Following Lumbar Tubular Microdecompression: Six-year Follow-Up

G Bullock, CA Sangio, EC Beck, AK Gowd, E Miller… - Spine, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. Prospective cohort study Objective. To report reoperation rates after lumbar
tubular microdecompression (LTM) and to compare patient-reported outcomes (PROs) six …

Follow-up: the change in postoperative opioid prescribing after lumbar decompression surgery following a state-level prescribing reform

P Ravishankar, E Barksdale, RD Winkelman… - … of Neurosurgery: Spine, 2022 - thejns.org
Arecent study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine by Winkelman et
al.(Winkelman RD, Kavanagh MD, Tanenbaum JE, et al. The change in postoperative opioid …

Variability in opioid prescription following primary single-level lumbar microdiscectomy

H Le, E Phan, L Agatstein, J Barber… - Global spine …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Study Design: Retrospective case series. Objectives: To evaluate the variability in opioid
prescription following primary single-level lumbar microdiscectomy. Methods: We …

The effect of smoking on achieving meaningful clinical outcomes one year after lumbar tubular microdecompression: a matched-pair cohort analysis

EC Beck, AK Gowd, JC White, ZO Knio, TJ O'Gara - The Spine Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND CONTEXT There has been a shift in the spine literature in
reporting meaningful outcomes, including meaningful clinically important difference (MCID) …

Prolonged preoperative opioid therapy in patients with degenerative lumbar stenosis in a workers' compensation setting

EY Tye, JT Anderson, M Faour, AR Haas, R Percy… - Spine, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. Retrospective cohort study. Objective. To investigate the impact of prolonged
opioid use in the preoperative treatment plan of degenerative lumbar stenosis (DLS) …

Reduction in narcotic use after lumbar decompression and fusion in patients with symptomatic lumbar stenosis or spondylolisthesis

O Adogwa, MA Davison, VD Vuong… - Global spine …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Study Design: Retrospective cohort study. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to assess
change in opioid use before and after lumbar decompression and fusion surgery for patients …

[PDF][PDF] BROCA'S AREA Neurosurgical Forum

P Ravishankar, E Barksdale III, RD Winkelman… - J Neurosurg …, 2022 - thejns.org
Arecent study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine by Winkelman et
al.(Winkelman RD, Kavanagh MD, Tanenbaum JE, et al. The change in postoperative opioid …