Table 2.

Analgesic prescriptions^a among incident cases of OA: UK, 1992–2013

Year	Incident cases, n	Mean age, years	Female, %	Prescribed analgesia, %
				COX-2	NSAIDs	Analgesics
						Weak combination opioids	Moderate combination opioids	Strong combination opioids	Very strong single opioids
Case definition: clinical OA
1992	2318	52.3	58.3	0.0	19.9	14.0	0.01	0.1	0.1
1993	11 101	51.9	57.5	0.0	21.3	14.0	0.1	0.1	0.1
1994	20 590	52.5	57.7	0.0	20.9	14.1	0.04	0.1	0.04
1995	24 091	53.2	58.4	0.0	20.4	15.6	0.1	0.1	0.1
1996	28 019	53.8	54.4	0.0	21.2	15.7	0.1	0.1	0.1
1997	31 163	53.9	58.0	0.0	21.5	15.4	0.2	0.1	0.1
1998	33 127	54.1	58.2	0.0	20.7	15.4	0.2	0.1	0.1
1999	33 820	54.3	58.4	0.3	20.0	14.5	0.2	0.1	0.1
2000	39 529	54.3	57.6	1.9	19.0	14.7	0.2	0.1	0.1
2001	48 723	54.6	57.8	3.5	19.3	14.3	0.3	0.04	0.1
2002	62 760	54.1	57.5	5.5	19.7	14.4	0.3	0.04	0.1
2003	83 876	53.7	57.1	6.6	19.8	13.8	0.3	0.1	0.1
2004	102 518	53.6	57.3	7.0	20.7	14.0	0.3	0.1	0.1
2005	112 689	53.6	56.8	0.9	19.4	14.2	0.4	0.1	0.2
2006	122 610	53.1	56.2	0.9	18.7	13.7	0.3	0.1	0.3
2007	132 437	53.0	56.0	1.0	18.6	14.1	0.4	0.1	0.3
2008	141 177	52.8	56.2	0.9	17.2	14.0	0.3	0.1	0.4
2009	145 550	52.7	55.6	0.8	16.6	14.0	0.3	0.1	0.4
2010	139 784	52.6	55.4	0.7	16.2	13.9	0.3	0.1	0.5
2011	138 460	53.0	56.0	0.5	15.6	14.2	0.3	0.1	0.5
2012	133 409	52.6	56.0	0.4	15.3	14.0	0.3	0.1	0.5
2013	128 502	52.7	56.1	0.4	14.9	14.0	0.3	0.1	0.5
Case definition: OA
1992	733	64.2	59.6	0.0	22.9	18.1	0.0	0.1	0.0
1993	3323	65.3	60.7	0.0	25.6	20.1	0.0	0.1	0.1
1994	6064	65.4	62.7	0.0	26.0	19.6	0.0	0.1	0.0
1995	7432	65.7	63.2	0.0	23.7	21.8	0.1	0.0	0.1
1996	9111	66.0	61.9	0.0	25.8	22.7	0.2	0.1	0.0
1997	10 350	66.1	63.5	0.0	26.0	22.6	0.2	0.1	0.1
1998	11 266	66.3	62.6	0.0	24.3	23.0	0.3	0.0	0.1
1999	12 101	66.3	62.8	0.7	24.3	21.4	0.3	0.0	0.0
2000	14 021	66.2	62.4	3.8	24.6	22.1	0.4	0.1	0.0
2001	16 731	66.5	62.6	6.9	25.4	21.3	0.4	0.1	0.1
2002	19 326	66.5	62.9	10.3	27.2	21.6	0.6	0.1	0.1
2003	24 269	66.6	62.8	12.1	26.9	21.6	0.6	0.1	0.2
2004	28 438	66.6	63.8	12.4	27.0	21.8	0.6	0.1	0.2
2005	30 828	66.8	62.6	1.8	21.0	22.6	0.9	0.1	0.4
2006	30 663	66.9	62.7	1.5	18.2	21.7	0.7	0.1	0.6
2007	31 174	66.8	61.8	1.7	17.5	21.5	0.7	0.2	0.7
2008	32 364	66.7	62.0	1.6	16.0	21.2	0.7	0.1	0.9
2009	31 889	66.6	61.2	1.5	14.9	21.3	0.7	0.2	1.1
2010	30 004	66.7	61.2	1.3	14.2	20.6	0.7	0.2	1.3
2011	29 448	67.0	61.5	1.1	13.5	20.9	0.6	0.2	1.2
2012	27 483	66.8	61.3	0.9	12.9	20.2	0.6	0.1	1.3
2013	25 145	67.2	61.6	0.6	12.5	19.7	0.5	0.2	1.2

^aPrescriptions issued within 14 days after incident OA consultation.