The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures on the prescribing trends and utilization of opioids in the English primary care setting: segmented-liner regression analysis.

Oula Nawaf SindiFaisal Salman AlshaikhBrian B Godman Amanj Baker Kurdi

Published in: Expert review of clinical pharmacology (2022)

Unexpectedly, opioid utilization does not appear to have been significantly affected by the lockdown measures during the study period. However, patient-level data is needed to determine more accurate estimates of any changes in the opioid prescribing including incident prescribing/use.

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