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Narcotic Use After Minor Hand Surgery

NCT02970383 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2016-11-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study evaluates the effect of larger or smaller opioid prescriptions following minor surgery on the amount of narcotic used, patient reported satisfaction, refill requests, and leftover narcotic.

Conditions

  • Pain, Postoperative
  • Minor Surgical Procedures
  • Narcotics Use

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Initial prescription for 10 narcotic tabs

Reduced number of pills in initial prescription post-operatively

BEHAVIORAL

Inital prescription for 30 narcotic tabs

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Carilion Clinic

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Cassandra Mierisch, MD · Carilion Clinic

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-10-31
Primary Completion
2016-10-31
Completion
2016-10-31

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