Medicare Opioid Use Disorder Patient Characteristics Before and After IPTW

Characteristics of Medicare patients with baseline opioid use disorder and pain who initiated methadone or buprenorphine, before and after Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting (IPTW). The dataset, created by Yu-Jung Jenny Wei, was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Compare patient characteristics for methadone versus buprenorphine initiation cohorts using IPTW-adjusted variables.
• Analyze demographic and clinical benchmarks for opioid use disorder patients within the Medicare population.
• Assess pain management treatment patterns among patients with documented opioid use disorder.

Strengths

• Data focuses on a specific, high-impact population: Medicare patients with opioid use disorder and pain.
• Includes benchmark characteristics for treatment evaluation.
• Available under a permissive CC BY 4.0 license.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 17.5 KB, indicating limited scope and likely a small sample size.
• Column names and row count are unknown, limiting immediate analytical understanding.
• Data is provided only in XLS format, which may require conversion for programmatic analysis.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

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Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

United States