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Human Studies


2020 Mar 10


Anesthesiology

Opioid Stewardship Program and Postoperative Adverse Events: A Difference-in-differences Cohort Study.

Authors

Barreveld AM, McCarthy RJ, Elkassabany N, Mariano ER, Sites B, Ghosh R, Buvanendran A
Anesthesiology. 2020 Mar 10.
PMID: 32167983.

Abstract

A 6-month opioid use educational program consisting of webinars on pain assessment, postoperative and multimodal pain opioid management, safer opioid use, and preventing addiction coupled with on-site coaching and monthly assessments reports was implemented in 31 hospitals. The authors hypothesized the intervention would measurably reduce and/or prevent opioid-related harm among adult hospitalized patients compared to 33 nonintervention hospitals.