Collaborative Care for Opioid and Alcohol Use Disorders in Primary Care: The SUMMIT Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Primary care offers an important and underutilized setting to deliver treatment for opioid and/or alcohol use disorders (OAUD). Collaborative care (CC) is effective but has not been tested for OAUD.

Objective

To determine whether CC for OAUD improves delivery of evidence-based treatments for OAUD and increases self-reported abstinence compared with usual primary care.

Design, setting, and participants

A randomized clinical trial of 377 primary care patients with OAUD was conducted in 2 clinics in a federally qualified health center. Participants were recruited from June 3, 2014, to January 15, 2016, and followed for 6 months.

Interventions

Of the 377 participants, 187 were randomized to CC and 190 were randomized to usual care; 77 (20.4%) of the part

SUBMITTER: Watkins KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5710213 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature