Morphine equivalent normalized score (MENS) process for comparison of narcotic usage across colon surgery patients. 
Current literature demonstrates how the use of narcotics prolongs a post-operative ileus [1].  An evidenced based care process model for a patient undergoing colon surgery requires the measurement of total narcotic usage.  This includes all narcotics given during the patients stay.  This care process model is being piloted at 5 different hospitals within Intermountain Health Care.  A process was created analyzing narcotic usage within this population, which was named the morphine equivalent normalized score (MENS).