Influence of opioid prescribing standards on drug use among patients with long-term opioid use: a longitudinal cohort study

RL Morrow, K Bassett, JM Wright, G Carney… - … Open Access Journal, 2019 - cmajopen.ca
Background: In mid-2016, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia
(CPSBC) issued prescribing standards and guidelines relating to opioid drugs. We …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of opioid prescribing standards on health outcomes among patients with long-term opioid use: a longitudinal cohort study

RL Morrow, K Bassett, JM Wright, G Carney… - … Open Access Journal, 2020 - cmajopen.ca
Background: The College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia introduced opioid
prescribing standards and guidelines in mid-2016 in British Columbia. We evaluated …

[PDF][PDF] Opioid prescribing patterns in British Columbia from 2013 to 2017: a population-based study.

L Yefet, J Bone, R Courtemanche, G Lauder… - BC Medical …, 2021 - bcmj.org
Opioid prescribing patterns in British Columbia from 2013 to 2017: a population-based study.
Page 24 336 BC MEDICAL JOURNAL vol. 63 no. 8| october 2021 336 CLINICAL ABstrACt …

[HTML][HTML] Decline in prescription opioids attributable to decreases in long-term use: a retrospective study in the Veterans Health Administration 2010–2016

K Hadlandsmyth, H Mosher, MW Vander Weg… - Journal of general …, 2018 - Springer
Background Improved understanding of temporal trends in short-and long-term opioid
prescribing may inform efforts to curb the opioid epidemic. Objective To characterize the …

Opioid dosing among patients with 3 or more years of continuous prescription opioid use before and after the CDC opioid prescribing guideline

J Salas, X Li, H Xian, MD Sullivan, JC Ballantyne… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Opioid doses declined after the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) opioid
prescribing guideline was published. However, it is unknown if dose declines occurred in …

Trends in opioid prescriptions among Part D Medicare recipients from 2007 to 2012

YF Kuo, MA Raji, NW Chen, H Hasan… - The American journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background There is growing concern about potential overuse of, and toxicity from, opioid
analgesics. No nationally representative study has examined inter-state variations in opioid …

State medical board policy and opioid prescribing: a controlled interrupted time series

SI Ranapurwala, CL Ringwalt, BW Pence… - American journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Introduction In March 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued opioid
prescribing guidelines for chronic noncancer pain. In response, in April 2016, the North …

[HTML][HTML] High-dose opioid prescribing and opioid-related hospitalization: a population-based study

L Spooner, K Fernandes, D Martins, D Juurlink… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Aims To examine the impact of national clinical practice guidelines and provincial drug
policy interventions on prevalence of high-dose opioid prescribing and rates of …

[HTML][HTML] Demographic, clinical, and prescribing characteristics associated with future opioid use in an opioid-naive population in an integrated health system

DM Mosen, AG Rosales, R Mummadi, W Hu… - The Permanente …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of 23,804 adults in an integrated
health system who had received a first opioid prescription between 2010 and 2015. We …

Five-year trajectories of prescription opioid use

N Gisev, L Buizen, RE Hopkins, AL Schaffer… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance There are known risks of using opioids for extended periods. However, less is
known about the long-term trajectories of opioid use following initiation. Objective To identify …