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1Surgical Services Clinical Program, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Abstract:
Current literature demonstrates how the use of narcotics prolongs a post-operative ileus [1]. An evidenced based care process model for a patient undergoing colon surgery requires the measurement of total narcotic usage. This includes all narcotics given during the patients stay. This care process model is being piloted at 5 different hospitals within Intermountain Health Care. A process was created analyzing narcotic usage within this population, which was named the morphine equivalent normalized score (MENS).
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