Importance Opioids are frequently prescribed to children and adolescents after surgery.
Prescription opioid misuse is associated with high-risk behavior in youth. Evidence-based …

BACKGROUND Recent national data are lacking on the prevalence, safety, and prescribers
of opioid prescriptions dispensed to children and young adults aged 0 to 21 years …

Administrative healthcare databases are created from records of service utilization and
payments for payer or hospital billing purposes. Such databases contain large amounts of …

Video Abstract BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Surgery is one of the most common
indications for opioid prescribing to pediatric patients. We identified which procedures …

Background Pediatric umbilical hernia repair is a common procedure that requires minimal
tissue disruption. We examined variation in opioid prescription fills after repair of …

Background Prescription opioid abuse has become a major issue across the world and
especially in North America. Canada has the second highest number of opioid prescriptions …

Objective To investigate the utility of answers generated by ChatGPT, a large language
model, to common questions parents have for their children following tonsillectomy. Methods …

Importance Practice guidelines recommend nonopioid medications in children after
tonsillectomy, but to date, studies have not used recent national data to assess perioperative …

Background: Cleft repair requires multiple operations from infancy through adolescence,
with repeated exposure to opioids and their associated risks. The authors implemented a …

Codeine and tramadol are opioid analgesics approved for the management of pain in the
United States. Both agents are metabolized in the liver to active compounds via the …