Telehealth for management of chronic non-cancer pain and opioid use disorder in safety net primary care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic increased use of telehealth for the management of opioid use disorder and chronic non-cancer pain in primary care safety net clinical systems. Significant barriers to telehealth exist, little is known about how these barriers impact urban safety net, primary care providers and their patients. The objective of this study was to qualitatively assess the benefits and challenges of telehealth for management of chronic non-cancer pain, opioid use disorder, and multi-morbidity in primary care, safety net clinical systems.

Methods

We interviewed patients with chronic non-cancer pain and history of substance use (n = 22) and their primary care clinicians (n = 7) in the San Francisco Bay Area, March-July 2020. We recorded, transcribed, co

SUBMITTER: Cooke A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10067010 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature