Opioid Reduction Toolkit Reduces Opioids Prescribed and Consumed

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Investigators studied a baseline population of patients receiving pancreatectomies at their institution and determined how many opioid pills each patient was prescribed and how many they took. Based on this data they created a toolkit to provide to prescribers to give patients a modified number of pills. The amount prescribed and consumed was measured after intervention.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Thomas Jefferson University
• Treatments: Oxycodone

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age > 18

• Being scheduled for an outpatient elective pancreatectomy

Exclusion Criteria:

• Urgent/emergent status

• Concomitant procedure being performed at time of pancreatectomy