Opioid Use in the Postpartum Period: Are we prescribing too much? (Podcast)
In the second episode of the JAOA's new podcast series, Behind the Research, Melissa Schmidt (JAOA Director) interviews Danielle Prentice, DO, and Amanda Berry, DO, authors of a recent pilot study in which they reviewed the medical records of 37 patients who delivered either vaginally or via Cesarean section at a community hospital in Oklahoma, analyzing the number of opioid pills each patient was prescribed. The authors then followed up with a survey 4-6 weeks after discharge to track the number of pills that had gone unused by these patients, finding that an overall average of 9.1 pills were left. Here, we discussed their motivation for their study and the implications of these results in the context of the opioid epidemic.
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