Identifying patient-important outcomes in medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder patients: a systematic review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Illicit opioid use has become a national crisis in Canada, with over 65 000 people seeking treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) in Ontario and British Columbia alone. Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is a common treatment for OUD. There is substantial variability in treatment outcomes used to evaluate effectiveness of MAT, making it difficult to establish clinically and scientifically relevant treatment effect. Furthermore, patients are often excluded from the process of determining these outcomes. The primary objective of this review is to examine outcomes currently used to measure MAT effectiveness and to identify patient-relevant outcomes to enhance effectiveness of treatment options. This review refers to patient-important outcomes as those outcomes patients

SUBMITTER: Sanger N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6286642 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature