Enhanced recovery program successfully reduced opioid use after pancreatic cancer surgery

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By improving hospital care pathways, researchers from MD Anderson Cancer Center successfully reduced inpatient opioid use by 50% after pancreatic cancer surgery and cut the median opioid prescription volumes at discharge to zero. 

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