Table 1.

Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Opioid-Naive Inpatients with and without a Prescription for Opioids

Characteristic	No. (%) of Patients*		p Value
	Opioids Prescribed (n = 82)	Opioids Not Prescribed (n = 299)
Age (years), mean	59	68	0.001
Sex, male	45 (55)	177 (59)	0.48
Length of stay (days), mean	9	7	0.009
Creatinine clearance (mL/min)			0.18
≥ 50 (mild impairment)	59 (72)	188 (63)
10–49 (moderate impairment)	20 (24)	104 (35)
< 10 (Severe impairment)	3 (4)	7 (2)

^*Except where indicated otherwise.