Table 5.
Frequency of health care resource use in the evaluated cohorts during 2011
| Health care resource | Frequency, n (%)
|
OR (95% CI) | P | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FM (n=4,296) | No-FM (n=583,665) | |||
| Emergency room visits | 1,490 (34.7) | 105,762 (18.1) | 2.4 (2.3, 2.6) | <0.0001 |
| Hospitalizations | 890 (20.7) | 63,422 (10.9) | 2.1 (2.0, 2.3) | <0.0001 |
| Office visits | 4,115 (95.8) | 535,551 (91.8) | 2.0 (1.8, 2.4) | <0.0001 |
| Outpatient visits (excluding office visits) | 3,248 (75.6) | 230,376 (39.5) | 4.8 (4.4, 5.1) | <0.0001 |
| Prescriptions administered/ordered | 2,536 (59.0) | 165,614 (28.4) | 3.6 (3.4, 3.9) | <0.0001 |
| Prescriptions written | 3,802 (88.5) | 444,400 (76.1) | 2.4 (2.2, 2.6) | <0.0001 |
| Prescription pain medications administered/ordered/written* (excluding opioids) | 3,095 (72.0) | 250,181 (42.9) | 3.4 (3.2, 3.7) | <0.0001 |
| Opioid prescriptions administered/ordered/written | 2,436 (56.7) | 129,200 (22.1) | 4.6 (4.3, 4.9) | <0.0001 |
| Visits in which diagnostic/laboratory tests were ordered | 3,160 (73.6) | 188,112 (32.2) | 5.8 (5.5, 6.3) | <0.0001 |
| Visits in which imaging was ordered | 19 (0.4) | 2,090 (0.4) | 1.2 (0.8, 1.9) | 0.3749 |
Notes:
*
Non-opioid pain medications comprised the following classes: simple analgesics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, anticonvulsants, muscle relaxants, benzodiazepines, hypnotics, tricyclic antidepressants, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors.
Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; FM, fibromyalgia; OR, odds ratio.