Opioid-containing medicines (inhalation- excluding drugs for substance misuse) - Pseudo BNF



Codelist metadata

Coding system

Pseudo BNF

Coding system release

unknown

Organisation

OpenSAFELY

Codelist ID

opensafely/opioid-containing-medicines-inhalation-excluding-drugs-for-substance-misuse

Version ID

7eee8fef

Versions

About

Description

All opioid-containing products which are given via inhaled route of administration, EXCLUDING products listed in section 4.10 (substance misuse) of the legacy BNF code structure. Drugs outside of this, but not included in "opioid analgesics" in the BNF ARE included (e.g. co-codamol, alfentanil)

Methodology

A modified version of the SQL used to create the measure definition for the opioid OME measure on OpenPrescribing was created.

The prescribing data table was replaced with the BNF hierarchy table, and code that related to calculating the OME was removed, leaving only identification of products containing opioids, as defined in the measure definition.

The SQL can be found on the Github issue for this codelist (listed in the references).

These codes were then filtered to only include inhaled route of administration.

References

Signed off by

  • Richard Croker, (Aug. 8, 2022)
  • Chris Wood, (Aug. 16, 2022)

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code term
0407020K0AABCBC Diamorphine 100mg impregnated cigarettes
0407020K0AABFBF Diamorphine 30mg impregnated cigarettes
0407020K0AACGCG Diamorphine 60mg impregnated cigarettes
0407020K0AADCDC Diamorphine 40mg impregnated cigarettes
0407020K0AADLDL Diamorphine 50mg impregnated cigarettes
0407020K0AAEUEU Diamorphine 20mg impregnated cigarettes
0407020K0AAEVEV Diamorphine 120mg impregnated cigarettes
0407020M0AAA2A2 Methadone 100mg impregnated cigarettes
0407020M0AAAGAG Methadone 40mg impregnated cigarettes
0407020M0AAAJAJ Methadone 30mg impregnated cigarettes
0407020M0AAAXAX Methadone 60mg impregnated cigarettes

Codes not in the full codelist are in faint grey.