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Jun 25, 2026
E45: Patient-Based Decision Making for Opioid Prescriptions After Ambulatory Breast Operation: A Randomized Clinical Trial
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Tom VargheseHOST
Can you, for the listeners, describe the point approach? I mean, what actually happens from the patient perspective?

Serena LoftusGUEST
So we kind of screened all the clinic visits to see who would be appropriate by our eligibility criteria for the study, which is pretty broad.

Serena LoftusGUEST
Basically, you know, you just had to be an adult that was English speaking because it was a large survey component and not be undergoing immediate reconstructive surgery.

Serena LoftusGUEST
And that was mostly just because we felt that was kind of going to be a little bit more complicated working with our plastics colleagues to kind of suss out the details of the study.

Serena LoftusGUEST
And then in clinic, we had a conversation about the study, kind of what it was about.
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Tom VargheseHOST
As the youngest person amongst all of us, do you think that there's a generational aspect to this, that older generations are more used to, you know, almost hierarchical, we're waiting for the experts to tell us what to do, whereas the younger generations are much more empowered and willing to challenge conventional wisdom.