Impact of hydrocodone reclassification on analgesic prescribing in the Veterans Health Administration.
CONCLUSION: HCP dispensing in VHA declined by 19.4% in the quarter after reclassification, which was driven largely by patients receiving long-term therapy. More than 13,000 veterans discontinued receipt of long-term HCP therapy after reclassification and the majority did not receive a replacement analgesic through VHA.
PMID: 30873558 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy : AJHP - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Steckler TJ, Mosher HJ, Desloover-Koch Y, Lund BC Tags: Am J Health Syst Pharm Source Type: research