Assessment of post-operative opioid prescribing practices in a community hospital ambulatory surgical center

CONCLUSIONS: One week after outpatient surgery, patients consumed one-third of physician-prescribed opioids, yet they reported high pain management satisfaction. Our study will inform the development of a patient-centered interdisciplinary perioperative education program to more effectively tailor multimodal pain management in ambulatory surgical patients and collaterally reduce the number of retained opioids.PMID:34259335 | DOI:10.5055/jom.2021.0634

Source: Journal of Opioid Management - July 14, 2021 Category: Addiction Authors: Warren D Bromberg Tracey Emanuel Valerie Zeller Elizabeth Galloway Susan Mogan Justin Diamond Debra Statler Fay Wright Source Type: research