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Impact of a prescriber and patient educational intervention on discharge analgesia prescribing and hospital readmission rates following elective unilateral total hip and knee arthroplasty

INTRODUCTION: Pain management after elective, unilateral total hip and knee arthroplasty (THA and TKA) should use a multimodal approach. At discharge, challenges include ensuring correct prescribing practices to optimise analgesia and rationalise opioid use as well as ensuring patients are adequatel...

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Autores principales: Wood, Daniel, Moy, Shuh Fen, Zhang, Shiran, Lightfoot, Nicholas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9345064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35914816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2021-001672