Integrating Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder into Rural, Primary Care Settings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) including buprenorphine are effective, but underutilized. Rural patients experience pronounced disparities in access. To reach rural patients, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has sought to expand buprenorphine prescribing beyond specialty settings and into primary care.

Objective

Although challenges remain, some rural VA health care systems have begun offering opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment with buprenorphine in primary care. We conducted interviews with clinicians, leaders, and staff within these systems to understand how this outcome had been achieved.

Design

Using administrative data from the VA Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW), we identified rural VA health care systems that had improved their rat

SUBMITTER: Wyse JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11347530 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature