Exploring take-home opioid stewardship (ETHOS) in UK postoperative patients
Opioid overprescribing is common after surgery and represents waste, expense, and risk to patients. There is a clear need to develop a procedure-specific evidence-base for discharge opioid prescribing, adopting an "enough but not too much" approach to ensure that patients have adequate analgesia to facilitate functional surgical recovery, but not more than is needed.
Authors
- Zachary Reed (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4174-1767)
- Antony Palmer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4616-7482)
- Jane Quinlan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0212-4459)
- A. Vivian Hussey
- Edward W D Flewitt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5366-3604)
- Hanin Ramadan
- Samantha Lai Sheung
- Nicole Hasler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4047-5163)
Institutions
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (GB)
- John Radcliffe Hospital (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- British Journal of Pain
- Published
- 2025-04-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/20494637251336640
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.88