Quality/Patient Safety Goal:
Opioid Prescription Reduction in Orthopedic Surgical Patients
Why this measure is important
The worsening opioid epidemic is concerning, even for children’s hospitals. We are reducing the number of outpatient and inpatient opioid prescriptions.
How we measure
Decreasing duration of medication use and total dose of medication, and reducing overall use of opioids. We measure by Morphine Equivalent Doses (MED).
What we are doing to improve
Decreasing MED for discharged patients in Orthopedics and Surgery.
