A Prospective Study of Post-operative Opioid Use in General Surgery Patients
Completed
- Conditions
- Pain
- Registration Number
- NCT02782884
- Lead Sponsor
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
- 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.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 50
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
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method number of pills to satisfy 80% of patients opioid needs 1 yr
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method proportion of patients requiring narcotic refills when specified number of pills is given 1 year patient pain level, daily 1 year