Public Health Agency of Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Nova Scotia Prescription Monitoring Program, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Health Promot Chronic Dis Prev Can. 2018 Sep;38(9):334-338. doi: 10.24095/hpcdp.38.9.05.
Timely public health surveillance is required to understand trends in opioid use and harms. Here, opioid dispensing data from the Nova Scotia Prescription Monitoring Program are presented alongside fatality data from the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service. Concurrent monitoring of trends in these data sources is essential to detect population-level effects (whether intended or unintended) of interventions related to opioid prescribing.
需要及时进行公共卫生监测,以了解阿片类药物使用和危害的趋势。在此,展示了来自新斯科舍省处方监测计划的阿片类药物配药数据,以及来自新斯科舍省法医服务的死亡数据。同时监测这些数据源中的趋势对于检测与阿片类药物处方相关的干预措施(无论是有意还是无意的)对人群产生的影响至关重要。