Sex Disparities in Opioid Prescription and Administration on a Hospital Medicine Service.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Decisions to prescribe opioids to patients depend on many factors, including illness severity, pain assessment, and patient age, race, ethnicity, and gender. Gender and sex disparities have been documented in many healthcare settings, but are understudied in inpatient general medicine hospital settings.

Objective

We assessed for differences in opioid administration and prescription patterns by legal sex in adult patient hospitalizations from the general medicine service at a large urban academic center.

Designs, setting, and participants

This study included all adult patient hospitalizations discharged from the acute care inpatient general medicine services at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heig

SUBMITTER: Yang N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11535141 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature