Opioid prescribing rates from the emergency department: Down but not out.

Mir M Ali¹, Eli Cutler², Ryan Mutter³, Rachel Mosher Henke⁴, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi⁵, Jesse M Pines⁶, Nicholas Cummings⁴

¹Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, US Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Avenue SW, Washington D.C., 20201, USA. Electronic address: ali.mir.m@gmail.com.

²Qventus, USA.

³Health, Retirement and Long-Term Analysis Division, Congressional Budget Office, USA.

⁴IBM Watson Health, USA.

⁵MedStar Washington Hospital Center, USA.

⁶US Acute Care Solutions, USA.

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Abstract

INTRODUCTION: To examine opioid prescribing rates following emergency department (ED) discharge stratified by patient's clinical and demographic characteristics over an 11-year period. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We used 3.9 million ED visits from commercially insured enrollees and 15.2 million ED visits from Medicaid enrollees aged 12 to 64 over 2005-2016 from the IBM® MarketScan® Research Databases.…

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