Patient-Directed Postoperative Opioid Prescribing for Gynecologic Surgery
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2020-04-15
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
We would like to evaluate and optimize opioid prescribing after minimally invasive
hysterectomy. Currently, our standard prescribing is 150 oral morphine equivalents. However,
recent studies show that half of the opioids prescribed are not used. We would like to
include the patient in the decision making of the opioid prescribing.
We have designed a randomized controlled trial to prescribe standard (150 oral morphine
equivalents) or patient directed (less than or equal to 150 oral morphine equivalents) for
pain control.
We hypothesize that with patient input, there will be a higher utilization of the opioids
prescribed. Also, we anticipate a lower number of opioids used overall.
This study will help us optimize opioid prescribe and evaluate whether patient input can help
in this important measure.