Population
Postoperative elderly patients (over age 60)
Design
Other
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Nurses' reliance on surgery type and vitals for elderly postoperative opioids may warrant protocol review; leaves open whether age integration improves dosing adequacy.
Nurses base narcotic administration decisions for postoperative elderly patients primarily on surgery type and vital signs rather than age, despite this population receiving less than one fourth of prescribed doses in the first 24 hours.
Short et al. (1990) studied this question.
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