Association of Perioperative Opioid Prescriptions With Risk of Complications After Tonsillectomy in Children.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Practice guidelines recommend nonopioid medications in children after tonsillectomy, but to date, studies have not used recent national data to assess perioperative opioid prescribing patterns or the factors associated with these patterns in this population. Closing this knowledge gap may help in assessing whether such prescribing and prescription duration could be safely reduced.

Objective

To assess national perioperative opioid prescribing patterns, clinical and demographic factors associated with these patterns, and association between these patterns and complications in children after tonsillectomy compared with children not using opioids.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort analysis used the 2016 to 2017 claims data from the database of a lar

SUBMITTER: Chua KP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6692671 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature