… Pain control also has great financial implications as opioids, … medication used for post-surgical
pain management … hospital administration may not be able to evaluate the overall cost …

… Specifically, spine surgery and other painful procedures generally require higher doses
and/or more frequent administration of pain medications, with opioids used predominantly. …

… readmissions in the Veterans Health Administration (VA) … scrutiny of opioid use, this study
has notable clinical implications. … using opioids preoperatively experienced higher rates of …

… for post-surgical pain may result in inadequate pain control and … effectiveness of the
route of administration of APAP in this … However, we can estimate the financial impact of the …

… quality of life and higher costs 2 but also increased opioid … metric assessing the administration
of a prophylactic antibiotic before … this fight against opioid abuse and related side effects. …

… and Drug Administration approval to market the controlled-… used to describe the impact of
opioids on ventilation. However… -term postoperative patient outcomes and health care costs …

… between hospitals for OFA administration. While we observed … OFA is being used by US
hospitals, but the low rate of use … of which may have an effect on post-surgical painCitation 41 . …

… were evaluated through administration of questionnaires. … postsurgical pain has been shown
to incur personal costs of … about opioid use in the postoperative period involved side-effects …

… surgery in the management of acute postsurgical pain is well … and costs among opioid-naive
surgery patients who received … based on administrative claims data, illicit use of opioids and …

… , we evaluated the impact of opioid-sparing pain control on … Patients were also asked to rate
their average pain in the first … of an opioid-sparing postoperative pain management pathway …