Journal of clinical anesthesia
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We attempted to describe the opioid prescribing patterns for ambulatory pediatric surgery in the United States from 2007 to 2014. ⋯ Substantial variability in analgesic prescribing at the level of the procedure performed, both in terms of the probability of receiving a prescription and in which drugs were prescribed. We observed significant age and procedure-based variability in opioid prescribing following pediatric ambulatory surgery.