Opioid prescribing for surgical dental procedures in dental clinics of military treatment facilities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Variation in opioid prescribing rates among geographic regions is well known and, to the authors' knowledge, there have been no studies of variation from 1 dental clinic to another, and such variation might suggest an excess of opioid prescriptions.

Methods

The authors used a retrospective cohort design study of all dental encounter records for 819,453 soldiers in the dental clinics (n = 250) of the US Military Health System during the period from 2008 through 2017.

Results

There were 743,459 dental surgical encounters. Opioid prescriptions were filled for 36.7% of these encounters. Multinomial multilevel regression found statistically significant between-facility variance in opioid prescribing, which was partially explained via facility-level characteristi

SUBMITTER: Richard P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8207621 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature