Effect of a Co-Located Bridging Recovery Initiative on Hospital Length of Stay Among Patients With Opioid Use Disorder: The BRIDGE Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Co-located bridge clinics aim to facilitate a timely transition to outpatient care for inpatients with opioid use disorder (OUD); however, their effect on hospital length of stay (LOS) and postdischarge outcomes remains unclear.

Objective

To evaluate the effect of a co-located bridge clinic on hospital LOS among inpatients with OUD.

Design, setting, and participants

This parallel-group randomized clinical trial recruited 335 adult inpatients with OUD seen by an addiction consultation service and without an existing outpatient clinician to provide medication for OUD (MOUD) between November 25, 2019, and September 28, 2021, at a tertiary care hospital affiliated with a large academic medical center and its bridge clinic.

Intervention

The bridge clinic

SUBMITTER: Marcovitz D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10900965 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature