A Prospective Study of Post-operative Opioid Use in General Surgical Patients

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center0 sites50 target enrollmentJune 14, 2016

ConditionsPain

Overview

Phase: Not Applicable
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: Pain
Sponsor: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Enrollment: 50
Primary Endpoint: number of pills to satisfy 80% of patients opioid needs
Status: Completed
Last Updated: 7 years ago

Overview Investigators Eligibility Criteria Outcomes Similar Trials

Overview

Brief Summary

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.

Registry

clinicaltrials.gov

Start Date

June 14, 2016

End Date

August 16, 2017

Last Updated

7 years ago

Study Type

Observational

Sex

All

Investigators

Sponsor

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Responsible Party

Principal Investigator

Richard J. Barth,Jr.

Staff Physician, General Surgery

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Eligibility Criteria

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