Addiction Consult Service and Inpatient Outcomes Among Patients with OUD.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite rising hospitalizations for opioid use disorder (OUD), rates of inpatient medications for OUD (MOUD) initiation are low. Addiction consult services (ACSs) facilitate inpatient MOUD initiation and linkage to post-discharge MOUD, but few studies have rigorously examined ACS OUD outcomes.

Objective

To determine the association between ACS consultation and inpatient MOUD initiation, discharge MOUD provision, and post-discharge MOUD linkage.

Design

Retrospective study comparing admissions that received an ACS consult and propensity score-matched historical control admissions.

Subjects

One hundred admissions with an OUD-related diagnosis, of patients not currently receiving MOUD who received an ACS consult, and 100 matched historical controls.

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SUBMITTER: Jakubowski A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11576704 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature