Surgeons’ knowledge regarding perioperative pain management in patients with opioid use disorder: a survey among 260 members of the American College of Surgeons

Table 2 Guideline availability and comfort managing OUD patients

A Kendall’s tau-b correlation was run to determine the relationship between guideline availability and comfort. There was a strong, positive correlation between comfort and guideline availability which was statistically significant (τb = 5.226, p = .000). There was no significant correlation between surgeon comfort with management and the volume of patients treated monthly with current opioid use or OUD

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