Enhancing Use of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Through External Coaching.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This randomized controlled trial tested whether external coaching influences addiction treatment providers' utilization of medications to treat opioid use disorder (MOUDs).

Methods

This study recruited 75 unique clinical sites in Florida, Ohio, and Wisconsin, including 61 sites in specialty treatment agencies and 14 behavioral health sites within health systems. The trial used external coaching to increase use of MOUDs in the context of a learning collaborative and compared it with no coaching and no learning collaborative (control condition). Outcome measures of MOUD capacity and utilization were monthly tabulations of licensed buprenorphine slots (i.e., the number of patients who could be treated based on the buprenorphine waiver limits of the site's providers),

SUBMITTER: Molfenter T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10836327 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature