Prescriptions for Buprenorphine in Michigan Following an Education Intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Buprenorphine is an underused treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) that can be prescribed in general medical settings. Founded in 2017, the Michigan Opioid Collaborative (MOC) is an outreach and educational program that aims to address clinician and community barriers to buprenorphine access; however, the association between the MOC and buprenorphine treatment is unknown.

Objective

To evaluate the association between MOC service use and county-level temporal trends of density of buprenorphine prescribers and patients receiving buprenorphine.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study exploited staggered implementation of MOC services across all Michigan counties. Difference-in-difference analyses were conducted by applying linear fixed-effects r

SUBMITTER: Chen L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10739087 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature