ED visits with opioids given or prescribed at discharge by diagnosis U.S. 2016

This statistic presents the rate of emergency department (ED) visits in the U.S. with opioids given or provided at discharge in 2016, by selected primary diagnosis. In that year, there were around 33.1 ED visits for back pain per 1,000 adults in which opioids were both given in the ED and prescribed at discharge.

Rate of emergency department visits in the U.S. with opioids given or provided at discharge in 2016, by diagnosis

Characteristic	Only given in ED*	Only prescribed at discharge	Both given and prescribed
Injury or trauma*	26.3	40.7	32.7
Abdominal pain**	50.3	19.4	29.8
Back pain	35.5	31.4	33.1
Extremity pain	32.1	33.8	34.1
Chest pain***	62.2	17.9	20

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Release date

May 2019

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United States

Survey time period

2016

Supplementary notes

* Estimate for only prescribed at discharge is significantly different than estimates for only given in ED and both given and prescribed.
** Estimates for only given in ED, only prescribed at discharge, and both given and prescribed are significantly different from each other.
*** Estimate for only given in ED is significantly different than estimates for only prescribed at discharge and both given and prescribed.

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