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Weekly per beneficiary rates of opioid prescription at discharge were compared with rates in the \u00b13 weeks surrounding the inspection to assess whether opioid prescribing at discharge increased during inspection weeks, when inpatient pain management practices are scrutinised.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Overall, 21\u2009156 hospital admissions at 90 teaching hospitals and 212\u2009588 at 2400 non-teaching hospitals during 2008-18 were analysed. Patient characteristics were similar between inspection and surrounding non-inspection weeks for both hospital types. The adjusted odds of post-discharge opioid prescription was, however, 19% higher during inspection versus non-inspection weeks at teaching hospitals (1.19, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.05 to 1.34, P=0.007). Non-teaching hospitals showed no statistically significant change in opioid prescribing during inspection versus non-inspection weeks (adjusted odds ratio 1.02, 95% CI 0.98 to 1.07, P=0.36).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Opioid prescribing at hospital discharge was higher among Medicare beneficiaries admitted to teaching hospitals during weeks of unannounced Joint Commission inspections compared with surrounding non-inspection weeks, raising the possibility that heightened focus on pain management may influence clinicians\u2019 decisions to prescribe opioids.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj-2026-100320","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,19]],"date-time":"2026-08-19T11:20:14Z","timestamp":1787138414000},"page":"e100320","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Opioid prescribing after Joint Commission hospital accreditation inspections: quasi-experimental analysis"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"394","author":[{"given":"David C","family":"Cron","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA"},{"name":"Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christopher M","family":"Worsham","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA"},{"name":"Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA"},{"name":"Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Charles F","family":"Bray","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9734-5122","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Anupam B","family":"Jena","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA"},{"name":"Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA"},{"name":"National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"2026081908150657000_394.aug19_3.e100320.1","unstructured":"U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 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