Volume 17, Issue 5, Pages 561-568 (May 2016) Trends in Opioid Dosing Among Washington State Medicaid Patients Before and After Opioid Dosing Guideline Implementation  Mark D. Sullivan, Amy M. Bauer, Deborah Fulton-Kehoe, Renu K. Garg, Judith A. Turner, Thomas Wickizer, Gary M. Franklin  The Journal of Pain  Volume 17, Issue 5, Pages 561-568 (May 2016) DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2015.12.018 Copyright © 2016 American Pain Society Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 (A) Average daily opioid doses per calendar quarter by percentile (25th–95th) of opioid users, showing 95% CI. (B) Average daily opioid doses per calendar quarter by percentile (99th percentile) of opioid users, showing 95% CI. The daily dose per quarter was calculated as the sum of the daily doses for each day in the quarter divided by the number of days in the quarter covered by opioid prescriptions. The Journal of Pain 2016 17, 561-568DOI: (10.1016/j.jpain.2015.12.018) Copyright © 2016 American Pain Society Terms and Conditions

Figure 2 Prevalence of any high-dose opioid use among opioid users, defined by 3 different thresholds, by year. Data for 2006 are on the basis of quarters 2 to 4 (data were not available for quarter 1). The Journal of Pain 2016 17, 561-568DOI: (10.1016/j.jpain.2015.12.018) Copyright © 2016 American Pain Society Terms and Conditions