Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Filling Multiple Opioid Prescriptions After Childbirth Associated With Maternal Death Risk
June 10, 2022
June 10, 2022
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 10 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news:
By Jake Lowary
In a new study led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers, women who filled two or more prescriptions for opioids after childbirth faced a 46% greater risk of death than women who did not.
The study, led by the late Arlyn Horn, PharmD, MPH and Margaret Adgent, MSPH, PhD, research assistant professor in the Division of Pharmac . . .
By Jake Lowary
In a new study led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers, women who filled two or more prescriptions for opioids after childbirth faced a 46% greater risk of death than women who did not.
The study, led by the late Arlyn Horn, PharmD, MPH and Margaret Adgent, MSPH, PhD, research assistant professor in the Division of Pharmac . . .