The study aims to compare two post operative pain management strategy's, traditional nurse dispensed pain control versus patient self medication. The investigators aim to establish if patients who self medicate have differing pain levels than those who take nurse dispensed oral morphine.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
144
Nurse will dispense oral morphine on request from the patient.
Patients will self medicate their oral morphine pain control solution following surgery.
Derwent Unit, Royal Bournemouth Hospital.
Bournemouth, Dorset., United Kingdom
To establish if patients who self medicate with oral morphine have differing pain levels than those who take nurse dispensed oral morphine.
Time frame: one year
To identify if patients who self medicate with oral morphine take a significantly different amount of morphine compared with those who take nurse dispensed oral morphine.
Time frame: one year
To compare whether patients who self medicate with oral morphine have a significantly altered level of side effects compared with those who take nurse dispensed oral morphine.
Time frame: one year
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