Improving access to buprenorphine for rural veterans in a learning health care system.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe a learning health care system research process designed to increase buprenorphine prescribing for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) in rural primary care settings within U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) treatment facilities.

Data sources and study setting

Using national administrative data from the VA Corporate Data Warehouse, we identified six rural VA health care systems that had improved their rate of buprenorphine prescribing within primary care from 2015 to 2020 (positive deviants). We conducted qualitative interviews with leaders, clinicians, and staff involved in buprenorphine prescribing within primary care from these sites to inform the design of an implementation strategy.

Study design

Qualitative interviews to inform i

SUBMITTER: Wyse JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11540581 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature