High-risk Prescribing Following Surgery Among Payer Types for Patients on Chronic Opioids
Main findingResult — go to the resultOdds ratio 1.067 95% CI 0.813–1.402Authors' conclusion
Among patients on chronic opioids, new high-risk prescribing following surgery was high across payer types.
Study context
- Population
- Patients on chronic opioids undergoing surgery, 70 hospitals of the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative
- Participants
- 1,435 patients
- Exposure
- Medicaid vs private insurance
- Outcome
- New postoperative high-risk prescribing (new overlapping opioids or benzodiazepines, multiple prescribers, high daily doses, or long-acting opioids)
Methodological detailsmulticentre registry, linked prescription drug monitoring program data
- Multicentre registry
- Linked prescription drug monitoring program data
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Odds ratio
1.067
95% CI 0.813–1.402
By group
Medicaid vs Private insurance
OR 1.067 (95% CI 0.813–1.402)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
High-risk Prescribing Following Surgery Among Payer Types for Patients on Chronic Opioids. Ann Surg. Published 16 June 2023. doi:10.
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