An observational study in Pain, sponsored by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Completed. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-07-30.
Sponsored by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center · Observational
Patients undergoing approximately 10 common outpatient general surgical operations will be given a narcotic prescription for a specified number of pills.
Inpatients who are about to be discharged after surgery or trauma will be given narcotic prescriptions for a specified number of pills. Patients will be given a patient report form which they will use to record the number of pills they take each day and their daily pain score on a scale of 0-10.
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>= 18 years of age undergoing one of 9 elective outpatient operations: partial mastectomy, partial mastectomy and sentinel node biopsy, melanoma wide excision and sentinel node excision, thyroidectomy, parathyroidectomy, open inguinal hernia repair, laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair, laparoscopic cholecystectomy OR an inpatient on the general surgery service who took at least one oral narcotic in the 24 hrs prior to discharge
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Exclusion Criteria:
Patients undergoing outpatient general surgical operations They will be given a specified number of narcotic pills based on our retrospective analysis of patient post-operative opioid use
Inpatients who are being discharged They will be given a specified number of narcotic pills based on the number of pills they took in the 24 hrs prior to discharge
number of pills to satisfy 80% of patients opioid needs
Time frame: 1 yr
proportion of patients requiring narcotic refills when specified number of pills is given
Time frame: 1 year
patient pain level, daily
Time frame: 1 year
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Plan to share: No
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