Post-discharge opioid use and handling in surgical patients: A multicentre prospective cohort study

Anaesth Intensive Care. 2020 Jan;48(1):36-42. doi: 10.1177/0310057X19895019.

Megan L Allen^{1

2

3}, Charles C Kim¹, Sabine Braat^{4

5}, Karin Jones^{1

6}, Noam Winter⁷, Timothy R Hucker², Angela Chia⁶, Coran Lang⁷, Sally L Brooks⁸, Daryl L Williams^{1

3}

¹ Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
² Department of Anaesthetics, Perioperative Medicine and Pain Medicine, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
³ Department of Anaesthesia, Pain and Perioperative Medicine Unit, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
⁴ Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
⁵ Melbourne Clinical and Translational Science Platform, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
⁶ Department of Anaesthesia, The Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
⁷ Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, Western Health, Footscray Hospital, Footscray, Australia.
⁸ Department of Pharmacy, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia.

No abstract available

Keywords: Opioids; pain; surgery.

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