The University of Michigan will use a new $3.6 million federal grant to study how pain and opioids after surgery impact people with opioid use disorder, how guidelines might be adjusted to address post-surgical pain and how to prevent opioid-related harms.
The five-year study funded by the National Institutes of Health will ask patients undergoing common surgeries at hospitals across Michigan to document their post-surgical pain and their use of opioids for relief. These and other data sources will be used to develop post-surgical care guidelines that focus on pain management and preventing harm from opioids for this challenging clinical situation.
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