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Prevalence of comorbidities, pharmacotherapy, and healthcare resource use\/costs (pharmacy, outpatient, inpatient, total) were examined during the 6 months preceding (preindex) and following (postindex) the date of their first pregabalin or gabapentin (index) prescription.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:\u2003<\/jats:bold> Patients in both cohorts had a variety of comorbidities and used multiple medications. There were significant decreases (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> values\u2003&lt;\u20030.05) in the use of nonsteroidal anti\u2010inflammatory drugs (32.1% vs. 29.5%), anticonvulsants (27.0% vs. 22.0%), and combination therapies in the pregabalin cohort in the postindex period. There were significant increases (all <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> values\u2003&lt;\u20030.05) in use of short\u2010acting opioids (58.8% vs. 63.7%), any opioids (61.5% vs. 65.6%), serotonin\u2013norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (22.5% vs. 24.5%), anticonvulsants (16.3% vs. 26.2%), benzodiazepines (33.2% vs. 36.6%), topical agents (6.6% vs. 9.0%), and combination therapies in the gabapentin cohort. Although there were no changes in units of healthcare resources used, there were increases in the postindex period in hospitalization, medications, and total costs for pregabalin, and office visits and medication costs for gabapentin (all <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> values\u2003&lt;\u20030.05).<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusions:\u2003<\/jats:bold> Results suggest a high comorbidity and medication use burden in FM patients in this study. Further evaluation is warranted to clarify differences in resource utilization\/costs observed with these two anticonvulsants.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1533-2500.2009.00292.x","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,6,4]],"date-time":"2009-06-04T05:45:12Z","timestamp":1244094312000},"page":"363-374","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Clinical Characteristics, Pharmacotherapy and Healthcare Resource Use among Patients with Fibromyalgia Newly Prescribed Gabapentin or Pregabalin"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Mugdha","family":"Gore","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alesia Beth","family":"Sadosky","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Gergana","family":"Zlateva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Daniel J.","family":"Clauw","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2009,9,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_6_2_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/art.1780380104"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_3_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/art.1780330203"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_4_2","first-page":"137","article-title":"The epidemiology of fibromyalgia. 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