Preoperative Opioid Use in Patients Undergoing Common Hand Surgeries.
Ali AneiziDominique GelmannDominic J VentimigliaPatrick M J SajakVidushan NadarajahMichael J FosterTristan B WeirNgozi M AkabudikeRaymond A PensyR Frank HennPublished in: Hand (New York, N.Y.) (2021)
Preoperative opioid use is common in hand surgery patients with a rate of 35%. Preoperative opioid use is associated with multiple baseline patient characteristics and is predictive of worse baseline scores on patient-reported outcome measures. Future studies should determine whether such associations persist in the postoperative setting between opioid users and nonusers.