Trends in Opioid Prescription in Children and Adolescents in a Commercially Insured Population in the United States, 2004-2017

Joshua J Gagne; Mengdong He; Brian T Bateman

doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.3668

Trends in Opioid Prescription in Children and Adolescents in a Commercially Insured Population in the United States, 2004-2017

JAMA Pediatr. 2019 Jan 1;173(1):98-99. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.3668.

Authors

Joshua J Gagne¹, Mengdong He¹, Brian T Bateman¹

Affiliation

¹ Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This study uses data from the Optum Clinformatics Data Mart to evaluate trends in outpatient prescription of opioids to persons 18 years or younger in the United States from 2004 to 2017.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Analgesics, Opioid* / economics
Child
Child, Preschool
Drug Prescriptions / economics
Drug Prescriptions / statistics & numerical data*
Female
Humans
Inappropriate Prescribing / economics
Inappropriate Prescribing / trends*
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Insurance, Health
Male
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / economics
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / trends*
United States

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid

Grants and funding

K08 HD075831/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States