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Journal Article
Use of post-discharge opioid consumption patterns as a tool for evaluating opioid prescribing guidelines
2022
Overview
Leftover pills from postoperative opioid prescriptions place patients and members of their communities at risk for opioid misuse. We aimed to better understand patients’ post-discharge opioid consumption patterns to inform new methods of postoperative opioid prescribing.
We assessed post-discharge opioid consumption of general surgery patients and assessed the adequacy of discharge opioid prescriptions. We then compared patient opioid consumption to a number of theoretical discharge prescriptions based on different opioid prescribing guidelines and a proposed discharge prescription based on the metric 24-h pre-discharge opioid consumption (PDOC).
62/99 patients (62.6%) returned an opioid log book. Median 24-h PDOC was 22.5 MME (IQR 5.0–45.0) and median discharge prescription size was 15 pills (IQR:10–20). Prescriptions were adequate for 83.7% of patients. The median number of pills used was 3 (IQR:0–11) and median time to opioid cessation was 3 days (IQR:0–5). Actual prescriptions were consistent with national opioid prescribing guidelines. Prescriptions based on the formula 2 × 24-h PDOC would have decreased the number of leftover pills by 7.5 per patient.
Despite prescribing opioids consistent with national opioid prescribing guidelines, patients still receive too many pills. Improved opioid prescribing could be accomplished by use of the formula 2 × 24-h PDOC.
•General surgery patients use very few opioids following hospital discharge.•Current prescribing guidelines recommend higher amounts of opioids than needed.•The metric 24-h pre-discharge opioid consumption could be used to help improve opioid stewardship.
Publisher
Elsevier Inc,Elsevier Limited
