Experts and patients join forces to create operation-specific guidelines for prescribing opioids
(WorldNews Health)

ByKristen West /PublishedAug 15, 2018 A Johns Hopkins expert panel of health care providers and patients have announced what is, to their knowledge, the nation`s first set of operation-specific opioid prescribing guidelines. The guidelines are based on the premise that opioid prescribing limits should be based on the operation performed rather than a blanket approach. The ranges offered for each of 20 common operations generally call for reductions from the current rates of opioid prescription, and the researchers say that patients themselves favor using less of the drugs than physicians often prescribe. In a report published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, the...