Trends in Routine Opioid Dispensing After Common Pediatric Surgeries in the United States: 2014-2019

Tori N Sutherland; Hannah Wunsch; Craig Newcomb; Scott E Hadland; Lakisha Gaskins; Mark D Neuman

doi:10.1542/peds.2021-054729

Trends in Routine Opioid Dispensing After Common Pediatric Surgeries in the United States: 2014-2019

Pediatrics. 2022 May 1;149(5):e2021054729. doi: 10.1542/peds.2021-054729.

Authors

Tori N Sutherland^{1

2

3}, Hannah Wunsch^{4

5}, Craig Newcomb⁶, Scott E Hadland^{7

8}, Lakisha Gaskins^{1

2}, Mark D Neuman^{1

2

9

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care.
² Centers for Perioperative Outcomes Research and Transformation.
³ Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁴ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada.
⁵ Department of Anesthesia and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
⁶ Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
⁷ Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, MassGeneral Hospital for Children.
⁸ Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁹ Pharmacoepidemiology Research and Training, Perelman School of Medicine.

Abstract

Using Joinpoint regression, our study revealed substantial decreases in postoperative opioid dispensing after outpatient pediatric surgeries beginning in 2017.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Ambulatory Surgical Procedures
Analgesics, Opioid* / therapeutic use
Child
Drug Prescriptions
Humans
Pain, Postoperative / drug therapy
Practice Patterns, Physicians'
Retrospective Studies
Specialties, Surgical*
United States / epidemiology

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Substances

Grants and funding