The Central African journal of medicine
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To establish prescribing patterns for post operative pain therapy, it's adequacy, as well as patients' satisfaction with the prescriptions. ⋯ Prescription patterns for post operative pain relief have not changed to include many of the new methods presently available. Only one route of administration is still used for a limited range of opioid and non-opioid drugs. Patients still experience a high incidence of moderate to unbearable pain in the post operative period. This can be improved by prescribing drugs at shorter intervals to reflect their pharmacokinetics and using newer techniques of drug administration.