Opioid prescribing on discharge to skilled nursing facilities.

Purpose: Skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents are at increased risk for opioid-related harms. We quantified the frequency of opioid prescribing among patients discharged from an acute care hospital to SNFs.

Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study among adult (≥18 years) inpatients discharged from a quaternary-care academic referral hospital in Portland, OR to a SNF between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2018.