Differences in Prescription of Narcotic Pain Medication After Operative Treatment of Hip and Ankle Fractures in the United States and the Netherlands
- 1 July 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Journal Of Trauma-Injury Infection and Critical Care
- Vol. 67 (1), 160-164
- https://doi.org/10.1097/ta.0b013e31818c12ee
Abstract
Interactions between American and Dutch surgeons suggested differences in prescription habits for pain medication after fracture treatment. The percentages of 190 American [100 after hip open reduction and interal fixation (ORIF) and 90 after ankle ORIF] and 116 Dutch patients (69 after hip ORIF and 47 after ankle ORIF) receiving inpatient and outpatient prescriptions for narcotics were retrospectively compared between countries, to test the hypothesis that narcotics are prescribed more frequently in the United States as compared with the Netherlands after operative fracture treatment. Among patients with hip fractures, 85% of American and 58% of Dutch patients were prescribed narcotics during hospitalization (p Conclusions: American patients are prescribed significantly more inpatient and outpatient narcotic pain medication than Dutch patients after operative treatment of hip and ankle fractures.Keywords
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