Emergency department buprenorphine program: staff concerns and recommended implementation strategies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients presenting to Emergency Departments (ED) with opioid use disorder may be candidates for buprenorphine treatment, making EDs an appropriate setting to initiate this underused, but clinically proven therapy. Hospitals are devoting increased efforts to routinizing buprenorphine initiation in the ED where clinically appropriate, with the greatest successes occurring in academic medical centers. Overall, however, clinician participation in these efforts is suboptimal. Hospitals need more information to inform the standardized implementation of these programs nationally. Using an implementation science framework, we investigated ED providers' concerns about ED buprenorphine programs and their willingness to prescribe buprenorphine in the ED.

Methods

We conducte

SUBMITTER: Ajumobi O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11429138 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature