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A Prospective Study of Post-operative Opioid Use in General Surgery Patients (GSopioids)

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Dartmouth Health

Status

Completed

Conditions

Pain

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients undergoing approximately 10 common outpatient general surgical operations will be given a narcotic prescription for a specified number of pills.

Inpatients who are about to be discharged after surgery or trauma will be given narcotic prescriptions for a specified number of pills. Patients will be given a patient report form which they will use to record the number of pills they take each day and their daily pain score on a scale of 0-10.

Enrollment

50 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • >= 18 years of age
  • undergoing one of 9 elective outpatient operations: partial mastectomy, partial mastectomy and sentinel node biopsy, melanoma wide excision and sentinel node excision, thyroidectomy, parathyroidectomy, open inguinal hernia repair, laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair, laparoscopic cholecystectomy OR
  • an inpatient on the general surgery service who took at least one oral narcotic

Exclusion criteria

  • allergic to all narcotics
  • chronic opioid use
  • history of opioid or benzodiazepine abuse

Trial design

50 participants in 2 patient groups

Outpatient general surgery operation
Description:
Patients undergoing outpatient general surgical operations They will be given a specified number of narcotic pills based on our retrospective analysis of patient post-operative opioid use
Inpatient general surgical patients
Description:
Inpatients who are being discharged They will be given a specified number of narcotic pills based on the number of pills they took in the 24 hrs prior to discharge

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