Pre-injury dispensing of psychoactive prescription drugs in a ten years trauma population: a retrospective registry analysis

Table 3 Expected and observed drug dispensing in trauma patients

	Female			Male
	Expected	Observed	Ratio observed: expected (95% CI)	Expected	Observed	Ratio observed: expected (95% CI)
Opioids	432	659	1.5 (1.4–1.6)	803	1194	1.5 (1.4–1.6)
Benzodiazepines	312	554	1.8 (1.6–1.9)	394	898	2.3 (2.1–2.4)
Z-hypnotics	371	614	1.7 (1.5–1.8)	442	748	1.7 (1.6–1.8)
Gabapentinoids	31	60	1.9 (1.4–2.4)	49	93	1.9 (1.5–2.3)
Centrally acting sympathomimetics	16	44	2.8 (1.9–3.6)	67	115	1.7 (1.4-2.0)
Selective β₂ adrenoceptor agonists	206	249	1.2 (1.1–1.4)	396	449	1.1 (1.0-1.2)
Desloratadine	103	91	0.9 (0.7–1.1)	197	148	0.8 (0.6–0.9)

Expected and observed drug dispensing in trauma patients one year pre-injury. Ratios are stated with 95% confidence intervals (CI). Expected values were calculated based on data from the Norwegian Prescription Database

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