Targeted housestaff intervention reduces opioid use without worsening patient-reported pain scores and improves outcomes among patients with IBD: the “IBD pain ladder”

ConclusionWe believe this intervention, aimed at housestaff education, provides a roadmap for pain management decision-making in this patient population. It is a readily reproducible strategy that can be widely applied to improve inpatient IBD patient care. Importantly, patient experience and pain scores were unchanged despite lower use of inpatient opioid analgesia, highlighting successful opioid-sparing analgesics in most inpatients with IBD.
Source: International Journal of Colorectal Disease - Category: Gastroenterology Source Type: research