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U.S. prescribing trends of fentanyl, opioids, and other pain medications in outpatient and emergency department visits from 2006 to 2015.


ABSTRACT: The United States is currently facing an epidemic of opioid-related deaths, increasingly associated with fentanyl use. Our objective was to characterize rates of fentanyl, general opioid and non-opioid pain medication prescription at a national level in both outpatient and emergency department settings. We used a retrospective cross-sectional research design using data from the 2006-2015 National Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys. Between 2006-2015, 66,987 (17.4%) of 390,538 office-based outpatient visits (nationally-representative of 961 million visits) and 134,953 (45.0%) of 305,570 ED visits (nationally-representative of 130 million visits) listed a pain medication prescription. The proportion of all outpatient visits in which any pain medication was prescribed increased from 15.0% in 2006-2007 to 20.5% in 2014-2015 (p?

SUBMITTER: Vijay A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6534435 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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U.S. prescribing trends of fentanyl, opioids, and other pain medications in outpatient and emergency department visits from 2006 to 2015.

Vijay Aishwarya A   Rhee Taeho Greg TG   Ross Joseph S JS  

Preventive medicine 20190317


The United States is currently facing an epidemic of opioid-related deaths, increasingly associated with fentanyl use. Our objective was to characterize rates of fentanyl, general opioid and non-opioid pain medication prescription at a national level in both outpatient and emergency department settings. We used a retrospective cross-sectional research design using data from the 2006-2015 National Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys. Between 2006-  ...[more]

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