Opioid Prescribing to US Children and Young Adults in 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent national data are lacking on the prevalence, safety, and prescribers of opioid prescriptions dispensed to children and young adults aged 0 to 21 years.

Methods

We identified opioid prescriptions dispensed to children and young adults in 2019 in the IQVIA Longitudinal Prescription Database, which captures 92% of US pharmacies. We calculated the proportion of all US children and young adults with ≥1 dispensed opioid prescription in 2019. We calculated performance on 6 metrics of high-risk prescribing and the proportion of prescriptions written by each specialty. Of all prescriptions and those classified as high risk by ≥1 metric, we calculated the proportion written by high-volume prescribers with prescription counts at the ≥95th percentile.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Chua KP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8778996 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature