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- Figure 1.
Rate of opioid prescribing and final prescriptions before death, by physician prescribing frequency: The bars represent the number of opioid prescriptions per 1000 eligible patients issued by physicians in each quintile; the dashed line represents the number of final opioid prescriptions before death issued by physicians in each quintile.
*The number of final opioid prescriptions before death corresponding to the bottom 2 quintiles has been suppressed for privacy reasons because there were 5 or fewer in each category.
Tables
- Table 1.
Physician characteristics across physician prescribing quintiles: Male sex (P = .003), older age (P < .001), and a greater number of years in practice (P < .001) were associated with greater opioid prescribing.
CHARACTERISTIC LOWEST VOLUME QUINTILE (N = 1977) SECOND-LOWEST VOLUME QUINTILE (N = 1978) MIDDLE QUINTILE (N = 1980) SECOND-HIGHEST VOLUME QUINTILE (N = 1979) HIGHEST VOLUME QUINTILE (N = 1978) Male sex, % 58 65 66 68 71 Mean age, y 48.4 47.0 47.1 49.0 50.5 Mean no. of years in practice 22.8 21.4 21.5 23.4 24.9 Mean no. of patients eligible for public drug plan coverage 343 374 404 433 424
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