Clinical Factors Associated With Practice Variation in Discharge Opioid Prescriptions After Pancreatectomy

Abstract

The wide variation in discharge opioid prescriptions is heavily influenced by provider routine/bias and not by objective criteria such as last-24-hours OME. Quality improvement strategies could include aggressive weaning protocols to increase the proportion of patients with zero/near-zero last-24-hour OME and limiting prescriptions to a conservative multiplier of the last-24-hour OME.