Opioid Prescribing Patterns After Imposition of Setting-Specific Limits on Prescription Duration.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite their widespread adoption across the US, policies imposing one-size-fits-all limits on the duration of prescriptions for opioids have shown modest and mixed implications for prescribing.

Objective

To assess whether a prescription duration limit policy tailored to different clinical settings was associated with shorter opioid prescription lengths.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study examined changes in opioid prescribing patterns for opioid-naive Medicaid enrollees aged 12 to 64 years before and after implementation of a statewide prescription duration limit policy in West Virginia in June 2018. Patients with cancer or Medicare coverage were excluded. The policy assigned a 7-day duration limit to opioid prescriptions for adul

SUBMITTER: Allen LD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10799257 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature