Implementation of a Quality Improvement Initiative to Decrease Opioid Prescribing After Cesarean Delivery.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess whether a multiphase, departmental quality improvement effort decreases opioid prescribing and increases multimodal analgesic use after cesarean delivery.

Methods

This is a prospective quality improvement study. In phase 1 of the protocol, discharge providers implemented counseling regarding expectations for pain, typical need for opioids, and importance of multimodal nonopioid analgesic use and used shared decision-making to determine the number of opioids prescribed. Patients could select up to a maximum of 30 tablets of 5 mg oxycodone (or equivalent opioid), lower than the previous routine discharge prescription of 40 opioid tablets. The primary outcome was the mean (SD) number of opioid tablets prescribed on discharge with secondary outcomes including

SUBMITTER: Prabhu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6105442 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature