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

Table 4 Dispensed drugs fourteen days prior to trauma in patients with severe and non-severe injury

	ISS > 15		ISS < 15 or unknown
	n	%	n	%
All patients	4891	100	7822	100
Opioids	134	2.7	151	1.9
Benzodiazepines	200	4.1	235	3.0
Z-hypnotics	133	2.7	155	2.0
Gabapentinoids	14	0.3	28	0.4
Centrally acting sympathomimetics	6	0.1	22	0.3

Trauma patients with severe injury, i.e. Injury Severity Score (ISS) > 15, and patients with non-severe injury (ISS < 15) or unknown severity, were compared with respect to the proportion of patients who had been dispensed drugs during the last fourteen days preceding trauma.

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