Impact of an intervention to implement provision of opioid use disorder medication among patients with and without co-occurring substance use disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Co-occurring substance use disorders (SUDs) are common among people with opioid use disorder (OUD) and known to hinder receipt of medications for OUD (MOUD). It is important to understand how MOUD care implemented outside of SUD specialty settings impacts access for patients with co-occurring SUDs. The Veterans Health Administration's (VA) Stepped Care for Opioid Use Disorder Train the Trainer (SCOUTT) initiative was implemented in primary care, mental health, and pain clinics in 18 VA facilities, and was found to increase MOUD receipt. This study assessed the SCOUTT initiative's impact among patients with and without co-occurring SUDs.

Methods

This study used a controlled interrupted time series design. We extracted electronic health record data for patients wi

SUBMITTER: Frost MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10706828 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature