Originally published by our sister publication Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News
By Meaghan Lee Callaghan
Samantha Baillie, MBBS
Which patients with inflammatory bowel disease are taking opioids? According to a new study, patients were more often female, had undergone previous surgery or were diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. Many had comorbidities.
Some of this is to be expected, said lead researcher Samantha Baillie, MBBS, a clinical research fellow in gastroenterology at St.