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Inpatient opioid receipt and care experiences for vaginal delivery.

Danek R, Blackburn J, Harle CA, Bair M, Kara A, Mazurenko O. Inpatient opioid receipt and care experiences for vaginal delivery. The American journal of managed care. 2022 Jul 1; 28(7):e248-e254.

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Abstract:

OBJECTIVES: To examine the relationship between care experiences and inpatient opioid receipt during and after delivery for women hospitalized for vaginal delivery (VD). STUDY DESIGN: We used a pooled cross-sectional design with inverse probability weighting to examine the association between inpatient opioid receipt and care experiences of women hospitalized for VD at a single health care system in a Midwestern state. We used 4 Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems scores (2 pain care items and 2 global items) as measures of care experiences of women hospitalized for VD. METHODS: We used 4 inverse probability-weighted logit regressions to estimate the relationship between inpatient opioid receipt and each patient care experience measure. In supplementary analyses, we used the same inverse probability-weighted methods to estimate the relationship between receipt of opioids and patient care experience measures in 3 patient subgroups based on mean patient-reported pain score during hospitalization (no pain, mild pain, moderate pain). RESULTS: We found no relationship between inpatient opioid receipt and inpatient pain care experiences. As an exception, we found that women hospitalized for VD were 5 (95% CI, 2-8) percentage points more likely to rate the hospital as 10 ("the best hospital possible") during hospitalizations in which an opioid was received. We also found higher overall ratings of the hospital among hospitalized women who reported mild pain if they received an opioid (marginal effects = 0.05; 95% CI, 2-8 percentage points). CONCLUSIONS: Receipt of opioids may not be a significant determinant of the pain-specific patient care experiences of women hospitalized for VD.





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