NCT02970383

Narcotic Use After Minor Hand Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: Carilion Clinic · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Detailed description

Patients are randomized to receive prescriptions for either 10 or 30 tabs of 5 mg hydrocodone/325 mg acetaminophen following minor hand surgery. Patients are allowed to request additional medication as needed. Patients are contacted by phone 10-14 days after their surgery to answer a questionnaire regarding number of pills taken, number of refills requested, number of remaining pills, their satisfaction with their pain control and their surgery, and their opinion regarding the appropriateness of the prescription size.

Conditions

• Pain, Postoperative
• Minor Surgical Procedures
• Narcotics Use

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Initial prescription for 10 narcotic tabs	Reduced number of pills in initial prescription post-operatively
BEHAVIORAL	Inital prescription for 30 narcotic tabs

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-10-01
• Primary completion: 2016-10-01
• Completion: 2016-10-01
• First posted: 2016-11-22
• Last updated: 2016-11-22