Implementation of a Quality Improvement Initiative to Decrease Opioid Prescribing in General Surgery.

Background: There is increasing need to avoid excess opioid prescribing after surgery. We prospectively assessed overprescription in our hospital system and used these data to design a quality improvement intervention to reduce overprescription.

Materials And Methods: Beginning in January 2017, an e-mail-based survey to assess the quantity of opioids used postoperatively as well as patient-reported pain control was sent to all surgical patients in a 23-hospital system.

Primary Caregiver Perception of Pain Control following Pediatric Adenotonsillectomy: A Cross-Sectional Survey.

Objectives: To (1) review pain medications prescribed following pediatric adenotonsillectomy (T&A), (2) identify pain medications reported to be helpful, and (3) compare parent-reported outcomes among various combinations of pain medications.

Study Design: Case series with planned data collection.

Setting: Multihospital network.