Dr. Della Valle Manuscript Awared the 2018 James A. Rand Young Investigator’s Award

Dr. Della Valle recently co-authored a manuscript entitled “Large Opioid Prescriptions are Unnecessary after Total Joint Arthroplasty: A Randomized Controlled Trial”. The manuscript was awarded the 2018 James A. Rand Young Investigator’s Award to be presented at the AAHKS meeting November 1-4 in Dallas, TX.

About the study: “A majority of patients in the United States receive over 90 opioid pills after hip or knee replacement surgery. The results from this study found that these large opioid prescriptions are unnecessary as they leave patients with an excess of unused opioid pills. A smaller prescription of 30 opioid pills is sufficient for a majority of patients undergoing hip or knee replacement.”