Non-overdose acute care hospitalizations for opioid use disorder among commercially-insured adults: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Acute care inpatient admissions outside of psychiatric facilities have been increasingly identified as a critical touchpoint for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment. We sought to describe non-opioid overdose hospitalizations with documented OUD and examine receipt of post-discharge outpatient buprenorphine.

Methods

We examined acute care hospitalizations with an OUD diagnosis in any position within US commercially-insured adults age 18-64 years (IBM MarketScan claims, 2013-2017), excluding opioid overdose diagnoses. We included individuals with ≥ 6 months of continuous enrollment prior to the index hospitalization and ≥ 10 days following discharge. We described demographic and hospitalization characteristics, including outpatient buprenorphine receipt within 10 da

SUBMITTER: Raman SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10337199 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature