Phoenix—A quality improvement project resulted in a 46% drop in opioid use after urologic oncology surgery, Stanford Health Care researchers reported at the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2018 Quality Care Symposium (abstract 269).
“Pain can be controlled with half as much opioid[s],” said Kerri Stevenson, MN-NP, NP-C, a nurse practitioner in inpatient urology at Stanford Health Care, in Palo Alto, Calif. Over the course of this quality improvement project involving 443