Does Engaging Patients with Relevant Education About Long-Term Opioid Use Before Spine Surgery Affect Long-term Opioid Use? A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Study Design: Parallel-arm randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of an enhanced video education session highlighting risks of opioid utilization on longterm opioid utilization after spine surgery.

Summary Of Background Data: Long-term opioid use occurs in more than half of patients undergoing spine surgery and strategies to reduce this use are needed.

The New Zealand nuclear veteran and families study, exploring the options to assess heritable health outcomes.

Aims: To describe health conditions in New Zealand nuclear veterans and their offspring, and examine the utility of tests to assess their heritability.

Method: An online survey, open to all veterans and offspring, with questions on health conditions, the GHQ12 to measure psychological distress, the Euroquol-5D visual analogue scale (EQ5D VAS) to measure health state, and free text items on veteran support.

Results: Eighty-three responses (56%) were from veterans, 65 (44%) from offspring.