Toward Zero Prescribed Opioids for Outpatient General Surgery

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-05-15
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Investigators have created an opioid reduction "package" which includes patient education, non-narcotic pain control instructions, and limited (or no) opioid pain prescriptions provided at discharge in an attempt to reduce the number of opioid consumption after outpatient general surgery.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Thomas Jefferson University
• Treatments: Oxycodone

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Opioid naïve patients

• Age > 18

• Being scheduled for an outpatient elective inguinal hernia repair or cholecystectomy

Exclusion Criteria:

• Urgent/emergent status

• Previous cholecystostomy tube placement