US National Trends in Pediatric Deaths From Prescription and Illicit Opioids, 1999-2016.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

It is not yet known how many children and adolescents die each year from opioid poisonings and how mortality rates have changed over time.

Objective

To examine national trends in pediatric deaths from prescription and illicit opioids.

Design, setting, and participants

Cross-sectional in which serial mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were analyzed. The population included 8986 children and adolescents (age, <20 years) who died in all US settings from opioid poisonings between 1999 and 2016. Data were collected and analyzed between June 1 and October 31, 2018.

Exposures

All opioids.

Main outcomes and measures

Age-specific mortality rates per 100 000 were estimated with smoothing spline Poisson regression.

Resu

SUBMITTER: Gaither JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324338 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature