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. George’s Hospital, in London. But the number of patients with IBD on opioids in the study was surprising,