Dr. Della Valle’s Study on Opioid Pill Prescriptions featured in Orthopedics This Week
Dr. Della Valle is the co-author of a new study entitled, “Who is prescribing opioids preoperatively? A survey of new patients presenting to tertiary care adult reconstruction clinics”. The study looks at the opioid prescription patterns for 461 consecutive new patients with painful and possibly arthritic hips or knees.
Orthopedics This Week has published an article about the study. Dr. Della Valle is quoted in the article, “Over the past several years we have had many patients come in after surgery and say they did not use all of their pills and they did not know what to do with the pills they had leftover. Thus, we decided to do a study to see if we can send patients home with fewer pills while still adequately controlling their pain.”
