Reducing postoperative opioid pill prescribing via a quality improvement approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The opioid epidemic has been fueled by prescribing unnecessary quantities of opioid pills for postoperative use. While evidence mounts that postoperative opioids can be reduced or eliminated, implementing such changes within various institutions can be met with many barriers to adoption.

Objective

To address excess opioid prescribing within our institutions, we applied a plan-do-study-act (PDSA)-like quality improvement strategy to assess local opioid prescribing and use, modify our institutional protocols, and assess the impacts of the change. The opioid epidemic has been fueled by prescribing unnecessary quantities of opioid pills for postoperative use. While evidence mounts that postoperative opioids can be reduced or eliminated, implementing such changes withi

SUBMITTER: Stensland KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8285762 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature