. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 28.

Published in final edited form as: Children (Basel). 2022 May 11;9(5):707. doi: 10.3390/children9050707

Table 3.

Results of analytic comparisons.

	Prescribing Department				Patient Age
Characteristic	Surgical	Non-Surgical	OR	95% CI	≥13 Years	<13 Years	OR	95% CI
N (%) with specified discrete amount of pediatric PO	2714 (76.6%)	7349 (81.0%)	0.77 ^***	[0.70, 0.85]	3027 (70.3%)	7037 (84.7%)	2.35 ^***	[2.15, 2.57]
N (%) with instructions to limit pediatric PO	454 (12.8%)	707 (7.8%)	1.74 ^***	[1.53, 1.97]	354 (15.3%)	807 (9.7%)	1.20 ^***	[1.05, 1.37]
N (%) with severity of pain specified	3016 (85.1%)	6154 (67.9%)	2.72 ^***	[2.45, 3.02]	3122 (72.4%)	6049 (72.8%)	1.02	[0.94, 1.11]
N (%) with potentially confusing phrasing on pediatric PO	587 (16.6%)	1856 (20.5%)	0.77 ^***	[0.70, 0.86]	945 (21.9%)	1498 (18.0%)	0.78 ^***	[0.71, 0.86]

Note. OR = Odds ratios; CI = confidence interval.

^***

p < 0.001.