34: Baseline pain medication use before and after anti-opioid legislation in a preoperative urogynecologic population

Despite the increasing morbidity and mortality of the opioid epidemic, the rates of pain medication use among the urogynecology patient population is not known. Our objective was to describe the baseline prevalence of preoperative opioid and neuropathic pain medication use in patients presenting for urogynecologic surgery and to determine whether this rate changed before and after passage of anti-opioid state legislation.

Source: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology - February 28, 2020 Category: OBGYN Authors: P. Edge, H. Leazer, J.M. Wu, M. Willis-Gray Tags: Non-Oral Poster Source Type: research