Alison Brown, MD
The wide variation in clinicians’ opioid prescribing patterns for pediatric tonsillectomy can be successfully narrowed by instituting a concerted quality improvement initiative.
Such an initiative, a team of researchers from Duke University Medical Center said, can decrease the amount of opioids prescribed after this common pediatric procedure, thereby reducing the rate of postoperative opioid-related adverse events without increasing rates of dehydration or inadequate