Association of the 2016 US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Opioid Prescribing Guideline With Changes in Opioid Dispensing After Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

While the 2016 US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guideline for prescribing opioids for chronic pain was not intended to address postoperative pain management, observers have noted the potential for the guideline to have affected postoperative opioid prescribing.

Objective

To assess changes in postoperative opioid dispensing after vs before the CDC guideline release in March 2016.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study included 361 556 opioid-naive patients who received 1 of 8 common surgical procedures between March 16, 2014, and March 15, 2018. Data were retrieved from a private insurance database, and a retrospective interrupted time series analysis was conducted. Data analysis was conducted from March 2014 to April

SUBMITTER: Sutherland TN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8196343 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature