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Prescribed opioids in primary care: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of influence of patient and practice characteristics
OBJECTIVES: To examine trends in opioid prescribing in primary care, identify patient and general practice characteristics associated with long-term and stronger opioid prescribing, and identify associations with changes in opioid prescribing. DESIGN: Trend, cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4874107/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27178970 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010276 |
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author | Foy, Robbie Leaman, Ben McCrorie, Carolyn Petty, Duncan House, Allan Bennett, Michael Carder, Paul Faulkner, Simon Glidewell, Liz West, Robert |
author_facet | Foy, Robbie Leaman, Ben McCrorie, Carolyn Petty, Duncan House, Allan Bennett, Michael Carder, Paul Faulkner, Simon Glidewell, Liz West, Robert |
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description | OBJECTIVES: To examine trends in opioid prescribing in primary care, identify patient and general practice characteristics associated with long-term and stronger opioid prescribing, and identify associations with changes in opioid prescribing. DESIGN: Trend, cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of routinely recorded patient data. SETTING: 111 primary care practices in Leeds and Bradford, UK. PARTICIPANTS: We observed 471 828 patient-years in which all patients represented had at least 1 opioid prescription between April 2005 and March 2012. A cross-sectional analysis included 99 847 patients prescribed opioids between April 2011 and March 2012. A longitudinal analysis included 49 065 patient-years between April 2008 and March 2012. We excluded patients with cancer or treated for substance misuse. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Long-term opioid prescribing (4 or more prescriptions within 12 months), stronger opioid prescribing and stepping up to or down from stronger opioids. RESULTS: Opioid prescribing in the adult population almost doubled for weaker opioids over 2005–2012 and rose over sixfold for stronger opioids. There was marked variation among general practices in the odds of patients stepping up to stronger opioids compared with those not stepping up (range 0.31–3.36), unexplained by practice-level variables. Stepping up to stronger opioids was most strongly associated with being underweight (adjusted OR 3.26, 1.49 to 7.17), increasing polypharmacy (4.15, 3.26 to 5.29 for 10 or more repeat prescriptions), increasing numbers of primary care appointments (3.04, 2.48 to 3.73 for over 12 appointments in the year) and referrals to specialist pain services (5.17, 4.37 to 6.12). Compared with women under 50 years, men under 50 were less likely to step down once prescribed stronger opioids (0.53, 0.37 to 0.75). CONCLUSIONS: While clinicians should be alert to patients at risk of escalated opioid prescribing, much prescribing variation may be attributable to clinical behaviour. Effective strategies targeting clinicians and patients are needed to curb rising prescribing, especially of stronger opioids. |
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spelling | pubmed-48741072016-05-27 Prescribed opioids in primary care: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of influence of patient and practice characteristics Foy, Robbie Leaman, Ben McCrorie, Carolyn Petty, Duncan House, Allan Bennett, Michael Carder, Paul Faulkner, Simon Glidewell, Liz West, Robert BMJ Open General practice / Family practice OBJECTIVES: To examine trends in opioid prescribing in primary care, identify patient and general practice characteristics associated with long-term and stronger opioid prescribing, and identify associations with changes in opioid prescribing. DESIGN: Trend, cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of routinely recorded patient data. SETTING: 111 primary care practices in Leeds and Bradford, UK. PARTICIPANTS: We observed 471 828 patient-years in which all patients represented had at least 1 opioid prescription between April 2005 and March 2012. A cross-sectional analysis included 99 847 patients prescribed opioids between April 2011 and March 2012. A longitudinal analysis included 49 065 patient-years between April 2008 and March 2012. We excluded patients with cancer or treated for substance misuse. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Long-term opioid prescribing (4 or more prescriptions within 12 months), stronger opioid prescribing and stepping up to or down from stronger opioids. RESULTS: Opioid prescribing in the adult population almost doubled for weaker opioids over 2005–2012 and rose over sixfold for stronger opioids. There was marked variation among general practices in the odds of patients stepping up to stronger opioids compared with those not stepping up (range 0.31–3.36), unexplained by practice-level variables. Stepping up to stronger opioids was most strongly associated with being underweight (adjusted OR 3.26, 1.49 to 7.17), increasing polypharmacy (4.15, 3.26 to 5.29 for 10 or more repeat prescriptions), increasing numbers of primary care appointments (3.04, 2.48 to 3.73 for over 12 appointments in the year) and referrals to specialist pain services (5.17, 4.37 to 6.12). Compared with women under 50 years, men under 50 were less likely to step down once prescribed stronger opioids (0.53, 0.37 to 0.75). CONCLUSIONS: While clinicians should be alert to patients at risk of escalated opioid prescribing, much prescribing variation may be attributable to clinical behaviour. Effective strategies targeting clinicians and patients are needed to curb rising prescribing, especially of stronger opioids. BMJ Publishing Group 2016-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4874107/ /pubmed/27178970 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010276 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/ This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | General practice / Family practice Foy, Robbie Leaman, Ben McCrorie, Carolyn Petty, Duncan House, Allan Bennett, Michael Carder, Paul Faulkner, Simon Glidewell, Liz West, Robert Prescribed opioids in primary care: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of influence of patient and practice characteristics |
title | Prescribed opioids in primary care: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of influence of patient and practice characteristics |
title_full | Prescribed opioids in primary care: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of influence of patient and practice characteristics |
title_fullStr | Prescribed opioids in primary care: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of influence of patient and practice characteristics |
title_full_unstemmed | Prescribed opioids in primary care: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of influence of patient and practice characteristics |
title_short | Prescribed opioids in primary care: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of influence of patient and practice characteristics |
title_sort | prescribed opioids in primary care: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of influence of patient and practice characteristics |
topic | General practice / Family practice |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4874107/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27178970 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010276 |
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