Patient Preferences for Pain Control After Mohs Micrographic Surgery: A Single-Center Discrete Choice Experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Patient preferences for pain medications after Mohs micrographic surgery are important to understand and have not been fully studied.

Objective

To evaluate patient preferences for pain management with only over-the-counter medications (OTCs) or OTCs plus opioids after Mohs micrographic surgery given varying levels of theoretical pain and opioid addiction risk.

Design, setting, and participants

This prospective discrete choice experiment was conducted in a single academic medical center from August 2021 to April 2022 among patients undergoing Mohs surgery and their accompanying support persons (≥18 years). A prospective survey was administered to all participants using the Conjointly platform. Data were analyzed from May 2022 to February 2023.

Main outcom

SUBMITTER: Nugent ST 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10323759 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature