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An alarming proportion of patients became chronic opioid users. These results are helpful to risk stratify patients to prevent chronic opioid use. Clinicians should be particularly attentive in patients who have had surgery, who use hypnotics/sedatives, and who are elderly. We need evidence regarding pain management strategies, efficacy of nonopioid analgesics, and opioid cessation strategies.
Nørgård et al. (Wed,) studied this question.