Sentences with phrase «filling opioid prescriptions»

Nearly 35 percent of patients (1,716 / 4,946) were filling opioid prescriptions in the three months prior to surgery.

However, researchers presenting their work at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Annual Meeting today in Toronto, Ontario, Canada found that those patients who were filling opioid prescriptions prior to surgery were 10 times more likely to be filling prescriptions five months after surgery.

Those younger than 25 years were four times as likely to be filling opioid prescriptions at nine months following surgery.

According to their analysis, nearly seven percent of patients were still filling opioid prescriptions, three months following surgery with almost five percent still filling prescriptions at 12 months.

That number is based on prescriptions by morphine milligram equivalents, a metric that takes into account the strength and dosage of drugs, but the total number of filled opioid prescriptions also dropped by 10.2 % per month, according to the report.

In 2007, 22.8 % of women who were enrolled in Medicaid programs in 46 states filled an opioid prescription during pregnancy (6).

When filling the opioid prescription at a pharmacy, 42 percent were spoken with about the risks associated with opioid use while 58 percent received no warning.

All patients included in the study had not filled an opioid prescription within the past six months.

Not exact matches

Walmart said a small packet of DisposeRX will now be given free automatically to any pharmacy customers filling new Class II opioid prescriptions at all of the retailer's 4,700 pharmacies.

The number of prescription for opioids filled on Long Island has dropped amid state efforts to curb the opioid crisis.

Of the babies with NAS, 65 percent had mothers that legally filled prescriptions for opioid pain relievers.

A total of 568,612 (56 %) patients received prescriptions for postoperative opioids, 90 % of which were filled within three days of hospital discharge.

They evaluated the effect of preoperative opioid demand on postoperative demand by comparing those who did and did not fill prescriptions pre-and post-surgery.

Patients were considered preoperative opioid users if they had filled a prescription in the three months preceeding surgery.

Further study of data from more than 243,000 patients aged 45 and younger found that those who were given two prescription fills were 2.25 times more likely to become long - term opioid users than those who received one prescription.