New opioid prescription claims and their clinical indications: results from health administrative data in Quebec, Canada, over 14 years.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Describe new opioid prescription claims, their clinical indications and annual trends among opioid naïve adults covered by the Quebec's public drug insurance plan (QPDIP) for the fiscal years 2006/2007-2019/2020.

Design and setting

A retrospective observational study was conducted using data collected between 2006/2007 and 2019/2020 within the Quebec Integrated Chronic Disease Surveillance System, a linkage administrative data.

Participants

A cohort of opioid naïve adults and new opioid users was created for each study year (median number=2 263 380 and 168 183, respectively, over study period).

Intervention

No.

Main outcome measure and analyses

A new opioid prescription was defined as the first opioid prescription claimed by an opioid naïve ad

SUBMITTER: Attisso E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11015182 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature