Rural-urban disparities in the availability of hospital-based screening, medications for opioid use disorder, and addiction consult services.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Hospitals are an ideal setting to stage opioid-related interventions with patients who are hospitalized due to overdose or other substance use-related complications. Transitional opioid programs-which initiate care and provide linkages upon discharge, such as screening, initiation of medications for opioid use disorder, and addiction consult services-have become the gold standard, but implementation has been uneven. The purpose of this study was to assess disparities in the availability of hospital-based transitional opioid programs, across rural and urban hospital settings in the United States.

Methods

Using hospital administrative data paired with county-level demographic data, we conducted bivariate and regression analyses to assess rural-urban differences in

SUBMITTER: Franz B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11060933 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature