title: Morphine equivalent normalized score (MENS) process for comparison of narcotic usage across colon surgery patients.
abstract: Current literature demonstrates how the use of narcotics prolongs a post-operative ileus [1]. An evidenced based care process model for a patient undergoing colon surgery requires the measurement of total narcotic usage. This includes all narcotics given during the patients stay. This care process model is being piloted at 5 different hospitals within Intermountain Health Care. A process was created analyzing narcotic usage within this population, which was named the morphine equivalent normalized score (MENS).
authors.affiliation: Surgical Services Clinical Program, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
authors.forename: Matthew S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Peters
mesh_terms: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000008:administration & dosage; D003106:Colon / Q000601:surgery*; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D004360:Drug Therapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009020:Morphine / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000188:drug therapy*; D013810:Therapeutic Equivalency; D014589:Utah
chemical_list: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid; D009020:Morphine