Hospital Prescribing of Opioids to Medicare Beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Use of opioids during and shortly after an acute hospitalization is warranted in some clinical settings. However, given the potential of opioids for short-term adverse events and long-term physiologic tolerance, it is important to understand the frequency of opioid prescribing at hospital discharge, hospital variation, and patient and hospital factors associated with opioid prescribing, which is currently unknown in the United States.

Objective

To estimate the frequency of opioid prescribing at hospital discharge among Medicare beneficiaries without an opioid prescription claim 60 days prior to hospitalization; to document hospital variation in prescribing; and to analyze patient and hospital factors associated with prescribing, including hospital average performa

SUBMITTER: Jena AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4955877 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature