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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 28.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg. 2022 Jan 21;277(6):e1225–e1231. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000005392

Figure 1 – Predicted Probability of New Persistent Opioid Use by Quartile of Prescription Size Among Patients Prescribed Opioids at Discharge.

Figure 1 –

Prescription size quartiles are the median prescription size in equivalent tablets of oxycodone 5 mg for each quartile, rounded to the nearest whole number of pills. Median and interquartile range (IQR) for each quartile was: 1st quartile 7 (IQR 1) pills, 2nd quartile 8 (IQR 0) pills, 3rd quartile 12 (IQR 3) pills, 4th quartile 20 (IQR 7) pills.