Trends in opioid dispensing after common abdominal and orthopedic surgery procedures in British Columbia: a retrospective cohort analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Postdischarge opioid prescriptions are reportedly much higher in Canada than in other countries. To assess potentially contributing factors, we examined trends after abdominal and orthopedic surgeries in British Columbia (BC).

Methods

Using the BC Ministry of Health's databases on physician billings, hospital discharge abstracts, and medication dispensations in community pharmacies for the period 2003-2016, we assembled a cohort of 263,056 patients who received laparoscopic appendectomy (LA, 11%), laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC, 30%), open inguinal or femoral hernia repair (IHR, 20%), total hip arthroplasty (THA, 18%), or total knee arthroplasty (TKA, 22%). Adjusting for covariates using generalized linear modeling, we measured trends in percentages of patients dis

SUBMITTER: Nann P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9244383 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature