Patient Education and Use of Post Operative Pain Medication in Ambulatory Hand Surgery: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Patients in the active education group will be given information pre-operatively on the current opioid epidemic, alternative pain management strategies that should be tried before proceeding to prescription opioid use, appropriate indications for opioid use, and side effects of opioids.This information will be reinforced by the research coordinator and nursing staff in the post-anesthesia care unit.

Patients will receive standard of care post-operative counseling. They will not be given pre or post-operative opioid education.