Opioid prescribing practices at hospital discharge for surgical patients before and after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2016 opioid prescribing guideline.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) March 2016 opioid prescribing guideline did not include prescribing recommendations for surgical pain. Although opioid over-prescription for surgical patients has been well-documented, the potential effects of the CDC guideline on providers' opioid prescribing practices for surgical patients in the United States remains unclear.

Methods

We conducted an interrupted time series analysis (ITSA) of 37,009 opioid-naïve adult patients undergoing inpatient surgery from 2013-2019 at an academic medical center. We assessed quarterly changes in the discharge opioid prescription days' supply, daily and total doses in oral morphine milligram equivalents (OME), and the proportion of patients requiring opioid refills within

SUBMITTER: Langnas E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9097447 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature