{
  "abstract": "Opioids continue to play a role in postoperative pain management and continue to result in predictable harm to patients including persistent use and overdose. 1 Buprenorphine, a partial agonist opioid, has an almost 60-year track record of efficacy in acute pain management. However, in contemporary practice, it is rarely used for this purpose and is better known as an essential medicine for opioid use disorder. In this systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, the authors aimed to broaden the understanding of buprenorphine’s efficacy versus opioids as a class in the treatment of acute postoperative pain in adults. Inclusion criteria were met for 58 studies.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA",
        "Anesthesiology, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Thomas R Hickey"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Universidade de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil"
      ],
      "name": "Gabriel P A Costa"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Victor Javier Avila-Quintero"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, West Haven, Connecticut, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Joao P De Aquino"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Buprenorphine versus full agonist opioids for acute postoperative pain management: an infographic",
  "uid": "95c71732-dac9-5169-94f2-3b16f5e068d9"
}