Preventing Opioid Diversion and Abuse by Using an At-home Opioid Disposal Method: An Improvement Project in a Pediatric Outpatient Surgical Center
Summary/Excerpts
Providing an at-home disposal product is a viable method of encouraging proper disposal of unused opioids. The combined cost of the disposal packet plus the instructional flyer was $1.90 per patient. Additional efforts are being undertaken to evaluate whether follow-up reminder calls at 2 weeks can be simplified to be included in the postoperative follow-up call to increase parent/guardian adherence.
Key Statistics
92% of participants ultimately disposed of their unused opioid using an in-home disposal method
Citation
De-An Zhang, Marilan Luong, Emmanuel Barragan, Frederic Bushnell, Robert. H. Cho, Selina Poon, Preventing Opioid Diversion and Abuse by Using an At-home Opioid Disposal Method: An Improvement Project in a Pediatric Outpatient Surgical Center, Journal of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2021, 150, ISSN 2768-2765, https://doi.org/10.55275/JPOSNA-2021-150.