ArticleAmerican journal of surgery2018
Surgical interns: Preparedness for opioid prescribing before and after a training intervention.
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- Adaptive interventions for opioid prescription management and consumption monitoring.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2023Article
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- The use of a surgical boot camp combining anatomical education and surgical simulation for internship preparedness among senior medical students.BMC medical education · 2022Article
- Beyond opioid prescribing: Evaluation of a substance use disorder curriculum for OBGYN residents.PloS one · 2022Article
- Clinician training level impacts prescribing practices for the conservative management of acute renal colic: a contemporary update.International urology and nephrology · 2021Article
- Variation in Postoperative Opioid Prescribing Among Upper-Extremity Surgery Providers.Journal of hand surgery global online · 2021Article
- Preoperative patient education and patient preparedness are associated with less postoperative use of opioids.Surgery · 2020Article
- Opioids Use and Abuse: Prescription Practice, Attitude, and Beliefs among Doctors of Karachi.Cureus · 2019Article
- A statewide comparison of opioid prescribing in teaching versus nonteaching hospitals.Surgery · 2019Article
- Fighting Back: Institutional Strategies to Combat the Opioid Epidemic: A Systematic Review.HSS journal : the musculoskeletal journal of Hospital for Special Surgery · 2019Review
- Expectation-setting and patient education about pain control in the perioperative setting: A qualitative study.Journal of opioid managementArticle
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Abstract
introductionExposure to pain management curriculum in medical school is currently variable. This paper reports on formal prescribing education, self-perceived prescribing readiness, and prescribing practices among incoming surgical residents before and after a pain management training session.
methodsPre-residency survey of thirty surgical interns at a single urban medical center, followed by a repeat survey after an educational session on prescription writing and opioid abuse.
resultsThirty-three percent of respondents had formal education on prescription writing in medical school. Median subjective preparedness to write an opioid prescription was 1.5 (range 1-10) on a 1-10 Likert scale. Ranges of morphine milligram equivalents (MME) prescribed varied from 420-2700 MME for 8 mock surgical scenarios. Post-training, median subjective preparedness increased to 3.5 (range 1-6) and prescription accuracy (the inclusion of a medication, dose, frequency, and duration) improved from 75% to 97% (p < 0.001). Overall, 90% of interns found the training session useful.
conclusionMost surgical interns were not trained in prescribing narcotics in medical school. Improved pain management curriculum is necessary to assure safe and consistent opioid prescriptions.
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