Educating junior doctors and pharmacists to reduce discharge prescribing of opioids for surgical patients: a cluster randomised controlled trial.

CONCLUSIONS: Specific education for clinicians and pharmacists about appropriate analgesic prescribing for surgical patients is effective in reducing prescribing of opioids at discharge.
TRIAL REGISTRATION: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry, ACTRN12618000876291 (prospective).
PMID: 33037644 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Med J Aust - October 10, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Hopkins RE, Bui T, Konstantatos AH, Arnold C, Magliano DJ, Liew D, Dooley MJ Tags: Med J Aust Source Type: research