{"id":4759,"date":"2020-01-17T10:30:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4759"},"modified":"2020-01-17T10:30:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T15:30:05","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-emergency-department-visits-for-pain-at-which-opioids-were-given-or-prescribed-by-geographic-region-of-the-hospital-united-states-2005-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/01\/17\/4759\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Emergency Department Visits for Pain at Which Opioids Were Given or Prescribed, by Geographic Region of the Hospital \u2014 United States, 2005\u20132017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6902a6.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6902a6-F.gif\" width=\"448\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The percentage of emergency department visits for pain at which an opioid was given or prescribed increased from 37.4% in 2005 to 43.1% in 2010 and then decreased to 30.9% in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>A similar pattern was observed in all four regions. Percentages for the Northeast were lower than for the nation as a whole for all years analyzed.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, the percentage was 21.1% in the Northeast, compared with 32.0% in the Midwest, 32.0% in the South, and 34.7% in the West.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> National Center for Health Statistics. National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2005\u20132017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/ahcd\/ahcd_questionnaires.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/ahcd\/ahcd_questionnaires.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The percentage of emergency department visits for pain at which an opioid was given or prescribed increased from 37.4% in 2005 to 43.1% in 2010 and then decreased to 30.9% in 2017. A similar pattern was observed in all four regions. Percentages for the Northeast were lower than for the nation as a whole for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61990,63690,59549],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}