The Reducing Opioid Use in Children with Clefts Protocol: A Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Effort to Reduce Perioperative Opioid Use in Patients Undergoing Cleft Surgery.

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Cleft repair requires multiple operations from infancy through adolescence, with repeated exposure to opioids and their associated risks. The authors implemented a quality improvement project to reduce perioperative opioid exposure in their cleft lip/palate population.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Plast Reconstr Surg

Title: Plastic and reconstructive surgery

Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

ISSN (Electronic): 1529-4242

ISSN (Print): 0032-1052

Publication date (Electronic): Feb 2020

Volume: 145

Issue: 2

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[1 ] Philadelphia, Pa.; and Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio From the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the Center for Healthcare Quality & Analytics, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, the Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; and the 88th Surgical Operations Squadron, Plastic Surgery Element.

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Publisher Item ID: 00006534-202002000-00044

DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000006471

PubMed ID: 31985649

SO-VID: 7e8965c0-f77f-4a53-bace-a9dbb733e551

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