Finding the Balance Between Reduced Opioid Prescribing and Patient-reported Pain Management Among General Surgery Patients
Authors' conclusion
Prescribing guidelines successfully reduced opioid prescribing without increased refill rates.
Study context
- Population
- Opioid-naïve adults undergoing 12 elective general surgery procedures at a single institution
- Participants
- 138 vs 603
- Exposure
- Postguideline vs Preguideline
- Postguidelinen = 138
- Preguidelinen = 603reference
- Outcome
- Patient-reported outcomes
- Follow-up
- Median 26 days from discharge
Methodological detailssingle-centre, telephone survey
- Single-centre
- Telephone survey
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Prescriptions within recommendations
P < 0.001
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Refill rates · similar
P = 0.50
Satisfaction with pain control · value = very/somewhat satisfied
Very/somewhat dissatisfied
P = 0.039
- No opioids prescribed — Patients prescribed no opioids, in both cohorts
- 16.7% · P = 0.98
Median MME prescribed
- Statistically significant drop in median MME prescribed, procedures
- 9 of 12 procedures (75%)
Safety
Very/somewhat dissatisfied with pain control
P = 0.039
Original publication
Finding the Balance Between Reduced Opioid Prescribing and Patient-reported Pain Management Among General Surgery Patients. Ann Surg. Published 26 August 2022. doi:10.
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