Preventing Excess Narcotic Prescriptions in New Robotic Surgery Discharges: The PENN Prospective Cohort Quality Improvement Initiative

Ruchika Talwar,Leilei Xia,Juan Serna,James Ding,Daniel J. Lee,Justin B. Ziemba,Thomas J. Guzzo

Preventing Excess Narcotic Prescriptions in New Robotic Surgery Discharges: The PENN Prospective Cohort Quality Improvement Initiative

2019

Ruchika Talwar
Leilei Xia
Juan Serna
James Ding
Daniel J. Lee
Justin B. Ziemba
Thomas J. Guzzo

Purpose: To reduce the amount of opioids prescribed at discharge after robotic surgery, we hypothesized that the majority patients do not require opioids for pain control after robotic urologic onc...

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Prospective cohort study
Robotic surgery
Surgery
General surgery
Medical prescription
Quality management
Narcotic
Medicine
Opioid epidemic
pain management
Emergency medicine
pain control

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