Originally published by our sister publication Pain Medicine News
Conservative opioid prescribing, with an eye to avoiding the potential for misuse, does not lead to increased dissatisfaction among patients recovering from minor outpatient surgery (classified as ASA I-II by the American Society of Anesthesiologists), according to recently published data.
In the observational study, researchers evaluated 270 surgical patients (153 women; mean age, 47.5 years) who were prescribed nonsteroidal