A Prospective Study of Post-operative Opioid Use in General Surgery Patients

Patients undergoing approximately 10 common outpatient general surgical operations will be given a narcotic prescription for a specified number of pills.

Inpatients who are about to be discharged after surgery or trauma will be given narcotic prescriptions for a specified number of pills. Patients will be given a patient report form which they will use to record the number of pills they take each day and their daily pain score on a scale of 0-10.

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Key information

Conditions

Pain Neurologic Manifestations Pain, Postoperative Pathologic Processes Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Postoperative Complications Signs and Symptoms

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

>= 18 years of age
undergoing one of 9 elective outpatient operations: partial mastectomy, partial mastectomy and sentinel node biopsy, melanoma wide excision and sentinel node excision, thyroidectomy, parathyroidectomy, open inguinal hernia repair, laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair, laparoscopic cholecystectomy OR
an inpatient on the general surgery service who took at least one oral narcotic

Exclusion criteria

allergic to all narcotics
chronic opioid use
history of opioid or benzodiazepine abuse

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

number of pills to satisfy 80% of patients opioid needs

Time frame: 1 yr

Secondary outcomes

proportion of patients requiring narcotic refills when specified number of pills is given

Time frame: 1 year
patient pain level, daily

Time frame: 1 year

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

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Registry information

Official study title

A Prospective Study of Post-operative Opioid Use in General Surgical Patients

Acronym: GSopioids

Important dates

Study start: 2016
Primary completion: 2017
Study completion: 2017
First posted: May 25, 2016
Registry last updated: Jul 30, 2018

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