Chronic Preoperative Opioid Use Is Associated With Increased Health Care Utilization Following Ankle Fracture Surgery.

Foot Ankle Orthop · 2025 · PMC12719581 · PMID 41438963

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approached significanceP = .068so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

Although psychiatric history and tobacco use approached significance ( P = .068 and P = .090, respectively), these associations did not reach statistical significance.

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