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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Dent Assoc. 2016 Apr 5;147(7):537–544. doi: 10.1016/j.adaj.2016.02.017

Table 2.

Frequencies of pre-existing multiple concurrent opioid prescription volumes at the time of dental opioid prescribing incidents.

No. Prior Opioid Prescriptions No. Of Incidents % Of Incidents Involving Female Patients* % Of Incidents Involving Children (<21)** No. Of Patients Represented
30d 90d 180d 30d 90d 180d 30d 90d 180d 30d 90d 180d
0 491,636 439,922 401,519 54.5 53.9 53.5 12.5 13.3 14.0 424,203 401,142 380,131
1 94,414 105,634 113,934 56.9 56.5 56.1 7.6 8.1 8.6 81,410 96,360 106,763
2 25,875 36,067 42,918 59.4 58.8 58.2 4.9 5.5 6.0 20,906 31,996 39,483
3 8,861 17,793 20,477 61.7 60.1 59.5 3.5 3.5 4.0 6,800 15,335 18,578
4 3,636 9,873 12,209 62.5 61.9 61.4 2.9 2.9 3.3 2,588 8,263 10,943
5 1,565 5,746 8,343 67.2 64.9 61.7 3.5 2.5 2.7 1,096 4,722 7,384
6 784 4,134 6,620 69.5 64.0 62.3 2.2 1.9 2.2 487 3,361 5,819
7 373 2,594 4,740 69.0 64.6 62.9 2.7 2.1 1.9 236 2,036 4,126
8 183 1,681 3,556 67.7 65.5 64.1 2.2 2.1 1.7 119 1,289 2,994
9 126 1,179 2,567 67.9 67.8 63.8 0.8 1.6 1.8 70 900 2,172
10 112 770 2,045 60.4 65.7 64.7 0 1.7 1.7 48 579 1,721
11 51 551 1,578 47.6 67.5 64.5 0 1.8 1.5 23 386 1,313
12 34 418 1,443 33.3 68.5 64.9 0 2.6 1.3 16 302 1,204
13 19 307 1,118 29.4 64.7 64.5 0 1.6 1.2 6 207 915
14 16 221 907 50.0 64.8 67.6 0 0.9 1.1 4 151 729
15 10 170 685 50.0 74.5 67.3 0 0.6 1.6 4 103 553
>15 82 717 3,118 66.2 60.7 66.8 0 0 0.8 5 134 879
Total >0 136,141 187,855 226,258 113,818 166,124 205,576
*

Female patients accounted for 55.1% of total patients with known gender in the full sample.

**

Children under 21 years of age accounted for 12.5% of total patients in the full sample.