Study finds patients needed fewer opioid tablets than prescribed after hernia surgery

(Massachusetts General Hospital) A study by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital and Newton-Wellesley Hospital found that patients prescribed opioid medications after inguinal hernia surgery used significantly fewer tablets than prescribed, even though they had received fewer than typically administered for such surgery.

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