Burden of opioid use for pain management among adult herpes zoster patients in the US and the potential impact of vaccination

• Main Authors: Jean-Etienne Poirrier (Author), Jessica K. DeMartino (Author), Saurabh Nagar (Author), Justin Carrico (Author), Katherine Hicks (Author), Juliana Meyers (Author), Jeffrey Stoddard (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The goal of this research was to describe treatment patterns, health-care resource utilization, and costs for herpes zoster (HZ)-related pain, and to estimate the potential impact of recombinant zoster vaccine (RZV) on avoided HZ cases and HZ-related pain prescriptions. This retrospective claims dat...