Assessing Impact: Implementing an Opioid Prescription Protocol in Otolaryngology.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

A lack of guidance for pain control after otolaryngology surgery can lead to overprescription of opioids. We implemented a postoperative site-specific opioid prescription protocol and analyzed the impact on opioid prescriptions.

Methods

This is a retrospective cohort study. A postoperative opioid prescription protocol was implemented within our otolaryngology department at a tertiary academic medical center on January 1, 2020. Retrospective chart review was completed for all patients undergoing otolaryngology surgery from November 1, 2019, to February 29, 2020 (2 months before and after initiation of intervention; n = 1070). The primary outcome was change in the amount of opioid prescribed for the preintervention and postintervention cohorts. Unplanned contact rela

SUBMITTER: Thal AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11221781 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature