Assessment of an Opioid Stewardship Program on Perioperative Opioid Prescribing in a Safety-Net Health System

Daniel A DeUgarte; Ross Fleischman; Maureen Mccollough; Glenn Ault; Kevin Rolfe; Christian de Virgilio

doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2022.4499

Assessment of an Opioid Stewardship Program on Perioperative Opioid Prescribing in a Safety-Net Health System

JAMA Surg. 2023 Mar 1;158(3):318-319. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2022.4499.

Authors

Daniel A DeUgarte¹, Ross Fleischman¹, Maureen Mccollough², Glenn Ault³, Kevin Rolfe^{1

4}, Christian de Virgilio¹

Affiliations

¹ Harbor Medical Center, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Torrance.
² Olive View Medical Center (OVMC)-UCLA, Los Angeles.
³ Los Angeles County-University of South California (LAC-USC) Medical Center, Los Angeles.
⁴ Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center, Downey, California.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This quality improvement study involves comparison of opioid prescription data before and after implementation of an opioid stewardship program in a safety-net medical system.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Analgesics, Opioid* / therapeutic use
Drug Prescriptions
Humans
Inappropriate Prescribing
Pain, Postoperative / drug therapy
Practice Patterns, Physicians'
Prescription Drug Misuse*

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid

Grants and funding

UL1 TR001881/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States