Postprocedural Opioid-Prescribing Practice in Nail Surgery

CONCLUSIONS: Podiatric physicians cannot assume that their prescribing of opioids does not affect the opioid abuse problem in the United States. The presented study serves to be an initiation for procedure-specific opioid prescription benchmarking to foster future guideline and policy development. After nail procedures, opioids should not be routinely prescribed.PMID:37467257 | DOI:10.7547/21-139

Source: Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association - July 19, 2023 Category: Podiatry Authors: Brandon M Brooks Qiyang Li Adam E Fleischer Natalie A Anderson Aaron Z Handa Chia-Ding Shih Source Type: research