Primary care physicians' preparedness to treat opioid use disorder in the United States: A cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Efforts to increase opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment have focused on primary care. We assessed primary care physicians' preparedness to identify and treat individuals with OUD and barriers to increasing buprenorphine prescribing.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional survey from January-August 2020 which assessed perceptions of the opioid epidemic; comfort screening, diagnosing, and treating individuals with OUD with medications; and barriers to obtaining a buprenorphine waiver and prescribing buprenorphine in their practice. Primary care physicians were sampled from the American Medical Association Physician Master File (n = 1000) and contacted up to 3 times, twice by mail and once by e-mail.

Results

Overall, 173 physicians (adjusted response rate 27.3

SUBMITTER: Foti K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10659122 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature