Enhanced discharge counseling to reduce outpatient opioid use after cesarean delivery: a randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Strategies to curb overprescribing have focused primarily on the prescriber as the point of intervention. Less is known about how to empower patients to use fewer opioids and decrease the quantity of leftover opioids. Previous studies in nonobstetrical populations suggest that patient counseling about appropriate opioid use improves disposal of unused opioids and overall knowledge about opioid use. Less is known about whether counseling reduces opioid use after hospital discharge.

Objective

This study examines whether enhanced discharge counseling on optimal analgesic use after cesarean delivery reduces opioid use and improves proper disposal of unused opioids and opioid use knowledge after hospital discharge.

Study design

Women who underwent an uncomplicat

SUBMITTER: Lam L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8299341 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature