Trends in rate of opioid prescriptions per 10,000 registrants during 2002–2015
| Overall trend(2002–2015) | Joinpoint analysis | |||||||||
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| Trend 1 | Trend 2 | Trend 3 | ||||||||
| AAPC, % (95% CIs) |
Year | APC, % (95% CIs) |
Year | APC, % (95% CIs) |
Year | APC, % (95% CIs) |
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| Cancer | 62.3 (44.7–82.1) |
N.A. | N.A. | N.A. | N.A. | N.A. | N.A. | |||
| Non-cancer | 49.9 (22.6–83.2) |
2002–2006 | -3.9 (-28.9–30.0) |
2006–2009 | 230.2 (27.0–758.6) |
2009–2015 | 35.8 (15.5–59.6) |
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AAPC, average annual percentage change; APC, annual percentage change; CIs, confidence intervals; N.A., not available.
aThe APC or AAPC is significantly different from zero (P<0.05).