Narcotic Refills and Patient Satisfaction With Pain Control After Total Joint Arthroplasty.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient satisfaction has become an important metric for total joint arthroplasty (TJA) used to reimburse hospitals. Despite ubiquitous narcotic use for post-TJA pain control, there is little understanding regarding patient factors associated with obtaining opioid refills and associations with patient satisfaction.

Methods

Using our state's mandatory opioid prescription monitoring program, we reviewed preoperative and postoperative narcotic prescriptions filled for 438 consecutive TJA patients. Subjects were divided into 3 groups based on the number of post-TJA narcotic refills obtained (0, 1, or >1), and logistic regression analysis was conducted comparing demographics, surgical factors, and satisfaction with pain control.

Results

One hundred twenty-five pa

SUBMITTER: Stambough JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7855659 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature