Development of an Institutional Opioid Prescriber Education Program and Opioid-Prescribing Guidelines: Impact on Prescribing Practices.
CONCLUSIONS: We developed a prescriber education program and followed up with consensus-based guidelines for postoperative opioid prescriptions. These interventions caused a significant decrease in excessive opioid-prescribing practices after ambulatory orthopaedic surgery at our hospital. We urge initiatives by national orthopaedic organizations to develop and promote education programs and procedure and disease-specific opioid-prescribing guidelines.
PMID: 30601411 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Hand Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Stepan JG, Lovecchio FC, Premkumar A, Kahlenberg CA, Albert TJ, Baurley JW, Nwachukwu BU Tags: J Bone Joint Surg Am Source Type: research
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