Patient Opioid Requirements Are Often Far Less Than Their Discharge Prescription After Orthopaedic Surgery: the Results of a Prospective Multicenter Survey.
Cody C WylesCornelius A ThielsMario HevesiDaniel S UblHalena M GazelkaNorman S TurnerRobert T TrousdaleMark W PagnanoTad M MabryElizabeth B HabermannPublished in: The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (2021)
Most patients used far fewer opioids after orthopaedic surgery than prescribed. These data have informed further improvement of our opioid prescription guidelines to more precisely align with anticipated procedure- and patient-specific requirements.