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J Am Coll Surg
January 2025
Surgical Oncology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ.
Background: In response to the opioid epidemic, prescribing guidelines and statewide surgical opioid management programs were initiated in 2018-19. This analysis aims to document the sustainability of a regional opioid stewardship consortium through the pandemic and beyond.
Study Design: From September 2019 through August 2023, 15 NSQIP hospitals in two states gathered opioid-specific variables on patients undergoing 12 procedures.
Children (Basel)
November 2024
Section of Rheumatology, Department of Paediatrics, Alberta Children's Hospital, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 28 Oki Drive NW, Calgary, AB T3B 6A8, Canada.
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a chronic autoimmune condition in children that often requires long-term pain management, which can include opioid use. In the context of Canada's ongoing overdose crisis, youth with JIA face risks due to potential opioid dependency and exposure to toxic drug supplies. This commentary proposes an integrated approach combining chronic disease management with harm reduction strategies specifically tailored for JIA patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Surg Res
December 2024
Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California. Electronic address:
Introduction: Opioid-related morbidity and mortality continue to rise with surgery often serving as the first exposure to opioids for patients. Few interventions focus on real-time education in the outpatient setting while patients are experiencing pain. The effect of short-messaging service (SMS) surveys with real-time opioid-use education (SMSE) and without (SMS) on outpatient postoperative opioid use was studied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOpen Forum Infect Dis
December 2024
Healthcare Associated Infections Program, Washington State Department of Health, Shoreline, Washington, USA.
Among Washington State emergency and family medicine physicians, high prescribers of opioids were 2.9 times more likely to be high prescribers of antibiotics in the Medicare Part D population. The inverse relationship showed the same association.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Perianesth Nurs
December 2024
School of Nursing, Colorado State University-Pueblo, Pueblo, CO; College of Health Sciences, Midwestern University, Glendale, AZ.
Purpose: Define the impact of the implementation of evidence-based music medicine (MM) on pain management outcomes after abdominal and pelvic surgery when combined with usual care.
Design: This quality improvement project implemented MM in a hospital postanesthesia care unit using a pretest-posttest design. The Roy Adaptation Model and Kotter's Change theory guided all project phases.
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