Northeast Postacute Medical Facilities Disproportionately Reject Referrals For Patients With Opioid Use Disorder.

ABSTRACT: Referrals of hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) to postacute medical care facilities are commonly rejected. We linked all electronic referrals from a Boston safety-net hospital in 2018 to clinical data and used multivariable logistic regression to examine the association between OUD diagnosis and rejection from postacute medical care. Hospitalized patients with OUD were referred to more facilities than patients without OUD (8.2 versus 6.6 per hospitalization), were rejected a greater proportion of the time (83.3 percent versus 65.5 percent), and in adjusted analyses had greater odds of rejection from postacute care (adjusted odds ratio, 2.2). In addition, people with OUD were referred disproportionately to a small subset of facilities with a higher likelihood of acceptanc

SUBMITTER: Kimmel SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10775137 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature