WCRI Webinar Covers Early Predictors of Long-Term Opioid Use

The Workers Compensation Research Institute will host a 45-minute webinar April 22 discussing the results of its study into the early predictors of long-term opioid dispensing. The authors of the study, Vennela Thumula and Bogdan Savych, will discuss its key findings including what information available early in a claim predicts which workers are most likely to have longer-term opioid use and what are the strongest predictors of longer-term prescribing. The authors will also field questions from guests. “Longer-term opioid dispensing to workers with work-related injuries can lead to i...