Use of a provincial prescription monitoring database to characterize perioperative opioid prescribing for hip and knee arthroplasty

In reply: Use of a provincial prescription monitoring database to characterize perioperative opioid prescribing for hip and knee arthroplasty

“…We have received with interest the letter by Milne et al, 1 describing their group's unpublished study of perioperative opioid prescribing in patients undergoing arthroplasty in a single center in Nova Scotia. We believe that such studies are extremely important in providing local baseline data prior to opioid reduction interventions, and to allow comparisons with other institutions and jurisdictions for the purposes of continuous quality improvement.…”