Time trends and prescribing patterns of opioid drugs in UK primary care patients with non-cancer pain: A retrospective cohort study

• Meghna Jani ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: meghna.jani@manchester.ac.uk

  Affiliations Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Department of Rheumatology, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1487-277X

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• Belay Birlie Yimer,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8621-6539

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• Therese Sheppard,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• Mark Lunt,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2391-5575

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• William G. Dixon

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Department of Rheumatology, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, United Kingdom

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