Impact of hysterectomy on analgesic, psychoactive and neuroactive drug use in women with endometriosis: nationwide cohort study
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Impact of hysterectomy on analgesic, psychoactive and neuroactive drug use in women with endometriosis: nationwide cohort study
Abstract
Objective: To evaluate how hysterectomy affects the prescription of analgesic, psychotropic and neuroactive drugs in women with endometriosis using population-based nationwide registers.
Design: Nationwide cohort study.
Setting: Swedish national registers, from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2018.
Population: Women with benign disease undergoing a total hysterectomy during the 4-year period of 2012-2015. Women with endometriosis (n = 1074) were identified and compared with women who did not have endometriosis (n = 10 890).
Methods: Prospectively collected data from two population-based registers were linked: the Swedish National Quality Register of Gynaecological Surgery and the Swedish National Drug Register. Multivariate logistic regression was used as the main statistical method.
Main outcome measures: Changes in drug prescription over time for 3 years prior to and 3 years after hysterectomy.
Results: The frequency of prescription of analgesics was higher in women with endometriosis compared with women without endometriosis (OR 2.2, 95% CI 1.7-2.9). Among women with endometriosis, the prescription of analgesics (OR 1.0, 95% CI 0.8-1.2) did not decrease 3 years after hysterectomy compared with the 3 years prior to surgery. There was also a significantly higher rate of prescription of psychoactive (OR 1.6, 95% CI 1.4-2.0) and neuroactive drugs (OR 1.9, 95% CI 1.3-2.7) in the long term postoperatively.
Conclusions: In women undergoing hysterectomy, endometriosis was associated with a higher prescription rate of analgesics. In the endometriosis group the prescription of analgesic, psychoactive and neuroactive drugs did not decrease when comparing prescription rates for the 3 years prior to and the 3 years after surgery.
Tweetable abstract: In women with endometriosis, the long-term prescription of analgesics did not decrease after hysterectomy.
Keywords: Endometriosis; hysterectomy; pain; prescription.
© 2020 The Authors. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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Comment in
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Endometriosis-associated pain in women undergoing hysterectomy.BJOG. 2021 Apr;128(5):856. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.16514. Epub 2020 Dec 22. BJOG. 2021. PMID: 32949081 No abstract available.
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Excerpts from the World Medical Literature.J Obstet Gynaecol Can. 2021 Jul;43(7):803-806. doi: 10.1016/j.jogc.2021.05.001. J Obstet Gynaecol Can. 2021. PMID: 34253301 No abstract available.
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