Sex concordance between physicians and patients and discharge opioid prescribing
Aksharananda Rambachan,
Mihir Joshi,
Andrew D. Auerbach
et al.
Abstract:Inpatient pain management is challenging for clinicians and inequities are prevalent. We examined sex concordance between physicians and patients to determine if discordance was associated with disparate opioid prescribing on hospital discharge. We examined 15,339 hospitalizations from 2013 to 2021. Adjusting for patient, clinical, and hospitalization‐level characteristics, we calculated the odds of a patient receiving an opioid on discharge and the days of opioids prescribed across all hospitalizations and fo… Show more
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