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Home / Publications / Pain Research Forum / Papers of the Week / Effects of the Ohio Opioid Prescribing Guidelines on Total Joint Arthroplasty Postsurgical Prescribing and Refilling Behavior of Surgeons and Patients.

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2020 Apr 20


J Arthroplasty


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32418742?dopt=Abstract

Effects of the Ohio Opioid Prescribing Guidelines on Total Joint Arthroplasty Postsurgical Prescribing and Refilling Behavior of Surgeons and Patients.

Authors

Effects of the Ohio Opioid Prescribing Guidelines on Total Joint Arthroplasty Postsurgical Prescribing and Refilling Behavior of Surgeons and Patients.
Whale CS, Henningsen JD, Huff S, Schneider AD, Hijji FY, Froehle AW
J Arthroplasty. 2020 Apr 20.
PMID: 32418742.

Abstract

The opioid epidemic has been declared a public health crisis, with thousands of Americans dying from overdoses each year. In 2017, Ohio passed the Opioid Prescribing Guidelines (OPG) limiting narcotic prescriptions for acute pain. The present study sought to evaluate the effects of OPG on the prescribing behavior of orthopedists following total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and total hip arthroplasty (THA).
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