The Opioid Give and Take: The Effect of Overprescribing on Patient Opioid Consumption Patterns Following Ambulatory Surgery

MeSH terms

• Adult
• Aged
• Ambulatory Surgical Procedures*
• Analgesics, Opioid / therapeutic use*
• Female
• Humans
• Inappropriate Prescribing*
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Opioid-Related Disorders / epidemiology
• Pain Measurement
• Pain, Postoperative / drug therapy*
• Practice Patterns, Physicians' / statistics & numerical data*
• United States / epidemiology