2024
Occurrence of Opioid Related Neurocognitive Symptoms Associated with long-term Opioid Therapy.
León C, Sung M, Reisman J, Liu W, Kerns R, Gordon K, Mitra A, Kwon S, Yu H, Becker W, Li W. Occurrence of Opioid Related Neurocognitive Symptoms Associated with long-term Opioid Therapy. The Clinical Journal Of Pain 2024 PMID: 39682036, DOI: 10.1097/ajp.0000000000001266.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchLong-term opioid therapyElectronic health recordsIncidence rate ratiosOpioid-related harmsSubstance use disordersNeurocognitive symptomsHazard ratioPatients prescribed long-term opioid therapyVeterans Health AdministrationCalculated incidence ratesAssociated with increased likelihoodChronic obstructive pulmonary diseasePost-traumatic stress disorderHealth recordsProportional hazards modelRetrospective cohort studyObstructive pulmonary diseaseHealth AdministrationRate ratiosIncidence rateCohort studyTraumatic brain injuryClinical notesExtract dataHazards model
2018
Duration of opioid prescriptions predicts incident nonmedical use of prescription opioids among U.S. veterans receiving medical care
Barry DT, Marshall BDL, Becker WC, Gordon AJ, Crystal S, Kerns RD, Gaither JR, Gordon KS, Justice AC, Fiellin DA, Edelman EJ. Duration of opioid prescriptions predicts incident nonmedical use of prescription opioids among U.S. veterans receiving medical care. Drug And Alcohol Dependence 2018, 191: 348-354. PMID: 30176548, PMCID: PMC6596307, DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.07.008.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPrescription opioid receiptPrescription opioidsMedical careOpioid receiptVeterans Health Administration primary careNonmedical useMultivariable Cox modelInfectious disease clinicProspective cohort studyProportional hazards regressionPrescription opioid medicationsPublic health problemSubstance use disordersMedication-related characteristicsOpioid therapyOpioid medicationsOpioid prescriptionsCohort studyDisease clinicMedian ageHazards regressionEligible participantsPrimary careRisk factorsIncidence rate
2012
HIV as an independent risk factor for incident lung cancer
Sigel K, Wisnivesky J, Gordon K, Dubrow R, Justice A, Brown ST, Goulet J, Butt AA, Crystal S, Rimland D, Rodriguez-Barradas M, Gibert C, Park LS, Crothers K. HIV as an independent risk factor for incident lung cancer. AIDS 2012, 26: 1017-1025. PMID: 22382152, PMCID: PMC3580210, DOI: 10.1097/qad.0b013e328352d1ad.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsIncidence rate ratiosIndependent risk factorUninfected patientsLung cancerSimilar HIVHIV infectionSurveillance biasRisk factorsIncidence rateVeterans Aging Cohort Study Virtual CohortVeterans Affairs Central Cancer RegistryChronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseIncident lung cancerObstructive pulmonary diseaseCentral Cancer RegistryLung cancer stageSimilar stage distributionRace/ethnicityExcess smokingMultivariable adjustmentAnalytic cohortPulmonary diseaseBacterial pneumoniaCancer RegistryPotential confounders