BACKGROUND: The presence of pain decreases survival rates in cancer. Pain
management in clinical settings is often suboptimal and secondary to other cancer-related …

Importance Postoperative opioid overprescribing leads to persistent opioid use and excess
pills at risk for misuse and diversion. A learning health system paradigm using risk-stratified …

Abstract Background/Purpose Risk‐stratified pancreatectomy clinical pathways using
regional anesthesia and multimodality analgesia have decreased overall opioid use, but the …

Methods| Based on a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report3 showing a
salient inflection point in the association of initial opioid prescription volume with long-term …

Introduction This study examined the patterns of prolonged opioid use and the factors
associated with higher risk of prolonged opioid use among opioid‐naïve working‐age …

Background An opioid reduction education program to decrease discharge opioid
prescriptions was initiated in our Department of Surgical Oncology. The study's aim was to …

Background Minimally invasive, robotic gastrectomy is associated with better short-term
outcomes and quicker functional recovery. However, the degree to which the robotic …

Background Opioid dependence is a public health crisis and surgery is a risk factor for long-
term opioid use. Though minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is associated with less …

Objective: To examine the rate of new and persistent opioid use after endocrine surgery
operations Summary of Background Data: A global epidemic of opioid misuse and abuse …

Abstract Background and Objectives The purpose of this study was to compare surgical
outcomes before and after implementation of an enhanced recovery protocol (ERP) in …