Frequent analgesic use at population level: Prevalence and patterns of use

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• 作者：Turunen ; Juha H.O. ; M??ntyselk?? ; Pekka T. ; Kumpusalo ; Esko A. ; Ahonen ; Riitta S.
• 关键词：Pharmacoepidemiology ; Use of analgesics ; Pain ; Population survey
• 刊名：Pain
• 出版年：2005
• 出版时间：June, 2005
• 年：2005
• 卷：115
• 期：3
• 页码：374-381
• 全文大小：111 K

文摘

Statistics and prescription database studies show that analgesics are widely utilized, but do not tell anything about either the factors behind analgesic use or how over-the-counter (OTC) analgesics are being used. We aimed to study the prevalence of frequent use of prescribed and OTC analgesics. We also investigated the background factors related to frequent analgesic use and assessed rationality of analgesic usage patterns. We addressed a postal survey to a random stratified population sample of 6500 Finnish people aged 15–74 years. The response rate was 71 % (n