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AUGUST 21, 2019

Mobile Health: A Novel Option to Monitor Post-op Opioid Use

By Karen Blum

Baltimore—Could mobile health apps provide a novel means of weaning patients off opioids after surgery? Canadian researchers are studying the possibility.

The postoperative setting often provides patients’ first exposure to opioids, according to Erin Kennedy, MD, PhD, a colorectal surgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital, in Toronto, and an associate professor in the University of Toronto’s Department of Surgery and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. Up