A prospective cohort study examines opioid effectiveness in preventing new persistent opioid use after surgery, indicating no significant difference.
Replacing oxycodone with morphine as first-line opioid after orthopaedic surgery did not appear to reduce new persistent opioid use (NPOU) and provided comparable analgesia.
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