Pharmacogenetic-guided Choice of Post-surgery Analgesics

Pharmacogenetic-guided Choice of Post-surgery Analgesics

Pharmacogenomics (PGx) is the study of how genes affect a person's response to drugs. PGx testing for certain genes can help predict the risk of side effects or therapeutic failure from analgesics. Testing is not regularly performed in clinical practice due to long wait times for results and challenges with integrating test results in the electronic health record. Investigators leading this study hope to find out if providing surgeons with the ability to order a PGx test and electronically receive results with dosing recommendations will increase the use of these tests to guide analgesic choice and improve patient outcomes.

This is a prospective, two-arm randomized implementation study. Eligible participants will be randomly assigned to receive genotype-guided analgesic selection (intervention arm) or usual care (control arm). Both cohorts will undergo pharmacogenetic testing at the time of consenting. The investigators will primarily measure the feasibility of using this test to guide analgesic selection.

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Able and willing to provide informed consent
2. Assigned female at birth and aged 18 years or older at the time of study initiation
3. Major gynecologic surgery indicated and planned for hysterectomy, myomectomy, exploratory laparotomy, and open abdominal surgery
4. Willing to provide a buccal swab for PGx testing and comply with all study-related procedures

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Receiving chronic opioid therapy defined as ≥ 3 consecutive months of 1-month prescriptions for an opioid
2. Pregnancy
3. Breastfeeding
4. Treating physician does not want subject to participate