Adoption of Emergency Department-Initiated Buprenorphine for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder: Secondary Analysis of a Cluster Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Emergency department (ED) initiation of buprenorphine is safe and effective but underutilized in practice. Understanding the factors affecting adoption of this practice could inform more effective interventions.

Objective

To quantify the factors, including social contagion, associated with the adoption of the practice of ED initiation of buprenorphine for patients with opioid use disorder.

Design, setting, and participants

This is a secondary analysis of the EMBED (Emergency Department-Initiated Buprenorphine For Opioid Use Disorder) trial, a multicentered, cluster randomized trial of a clinical decision support intervention targeting ED initiation of buprenorphine. The trial occurred from November 2019 to May 2021. The study was conducted at ED clusters ac

SUBMITTER: Gao E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10638655 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature