The impact of COVID-19 on analgesic prescribing in an urban emergency department

Autor:	Christine Ramdin, Jessica Tu, Lewis Nelson
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Medicine (miscellaneous) General Medicine
Zdroj:	Journal of Addictive Diseases. :1-8
ISSN:	1545-0848 1055-0887
Popis:	Providers across the country have significantly decreased opioid prescribing over the past decade to prevent opioid misuse. The COVID-19 pandemic led to a disruption of the healthcare system and changes in the relationships between patients and providers. Consequently, we sought to investigate whether the pandemic had any impact on analgesic prescribing in an urban emergency department.This was a retrospective, single center study analyzing pharmacy records of patients that were treated with analgesics between January 2019 and May 2021. The most common analgesics utilized were tallied by month. Utilization of specific analgesics were compared between TThere were significant decreases in the amount of IV (7.2% vs. 6.5;Despite the pandemic, providers continued to decrease opioid prescribing and increase non-opioid prescribing.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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