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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Transplantation. 2018 Jun;102(6):994–1004. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000002057

Table 3.

Percent of transplant recipients who had a prescription for ≥ 90 day of a specific opioid, by year

Opioid 2006
(n=21,030)
2007
(n=30,299)
2008(n=32,586) 2009
(n=34,153)
2010
(n=36,486)
Hydrocodone 5.7% 5.6% 6.1% 6.3% 6.4%
Oxycodone 3.2% 3.3% 3.5% 3.6% 3.8%
Propoxyphene 1.6% 1.5% 1.4% 1.2% 1.0%
Tramadol 1.3% 1.4% 1.6% 1.7% 1.8%
Codeine 0.6% 0.5% 0.5% 0.4% 0.4%
Morphine 0.6% 0.6% 0.6% 0.7% 0.7%
Hydromorphone 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.4% 0.4%
Fentanyl 0.8% 0.8% 0.7% 0.7% 0.8%

Chronic prescription is not mutually exclusive; a recipient could have ≥ 90 days prescription for more than 1 opioid medication