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no discharge prescription and 4 consumed their discharge prescription. There were 3 ED visits for pain (0.7%): 2 from constipation after appendectomy (no opioid prescription), and 1 from urinary retention after circumcision. Lack of a discharge opioid prescription was not associated with poor pain control (opioid: 3 of 88 respondents 3.4%; no opioid: 15 of 315 respondents 4.8%; P = .77), postdischarge opioid prescription (opioid: 4 of 88 respondents 4.6%; no opioid: 4 of 316 respondents 1.3%; P = .07), or pain-related ED visit (opioid: 1 of 88 respondents 1.1%; no opioid: 2 of 316 respondents 0.6%; P = .52).
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