Opioid dispensing after Cesarean delivery in British Columbia: a historical cohort analysis from 2004 to 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To describe postdischarge opioid dispensing after Cesarean delivery (CD) in 49 hospitals in British Columbia (BC) and assess opportunities for opioid stewardship.

Methods

Using the BC Ministry of Health's Hospital Discharge Abstract Database, we linked 135,725 CDs performed in 2004-2016 and 30,919 CDs performed in 2017-2019 (length of stay ≤ four days) by deidentified Personal Health Numbers to data on medications dispensed from all BC community pharmacies (PharmaNet). We excluded patients with cancer and those to whom opioids have been dispensed in the year before. We measured trends in annual percentages of patients dispensed opioids within seven days (opioid rate), with 95% confidence intervals (CIs), stratified by hospital and opioid type, adjusted for length of

SUBMITTER: Ziafat K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9244301 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature