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Table 2 Patient and surgery characteristics

From: Using provider-focused education toolkits can aid enhanced recovery programs to further reduce patient exposure to opioids

 

Pre-implementation, N = 869

Post-implementation, N = 838

Demographics

 Age, median (inter-quartile range)

54 years (43–66)

57 years(43–67)

 Women

68.8%

69.9%

 ASA rating 2–3

89%

93.6%

 Ongoing opioid use

33.8%

33.2%

 Methadone users

2.3%

2.4%

Surgical service

 Colorectal

50.1%

50.1%

 Gynecology

42%

42.1%

 Urology (cystectomy)

7.2%

6.6%

Operative details

 Laparoscopic

31.9%

29.9%

 Robotic

15.3%

17.9%

 Case mix index*, median (inter-quartile range)

1.95 (1.61–2.54)

1.96 (1.64–2.47)

Anesthesia details

 Epidural use

35.1%

27.7%

 Use of 2 or more multimodal analgesics for the first 48 h

43.6%

44.2%

  1. *The case mix index (CMI) is the average relative diagnosis-related group (DRG) weight of a hospital’s inpatient discharges, calculated by summing the Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Related Group (MS-DRG) weight for each discharge and dividing the total by the number of discharges. The CMI reflects the diversity, clinical complexity, and resource needs of all the patients in the hospital