TY  - JOUR
T1  - Long-term analgesic use: Sometimes less is not more—reply
AU  - Alam A, Gomes T, Bell CM
Y1  - 2012/08/13
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2897
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1189
EP  - 1190
VL  - 172
IS  - 15
N2  - 
Our cohort was specifically designed to minimize any confounding by excluding patients with prior pain medication use. Unfortunately, this was not incorporated in the cohort study2 cited by Drs Krishnamoorthy and Bhalla. Hence, we believe the pain requirements of our patient cohort can more likely be attributed to the surgery and postoperative prescriptions. Furthermore, we believe the prevalence of pain in the cited single-center comparator cohorts are likely far lower owing to low responder biases.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2897
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2897
ER  -