Monitoring opioid addiction and treatment: Do you know if your population is engaged?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Assessment of people affected by opioid-related problems and those receiving care is challenging due to lack of common definitions and scattered information. We sought to fill this gap by demonstrating a method to describe a continuum of opioid addiction care in a large, public safety-net institution.

Methods

Using 2017 clinical and administrative data from Denver Health (DH), we created operational definitions for opioid use disorder (OUD), opioid misuse (OM), and opioid poisoning (OP). Six stages along a continuum of patient engagement in opioid addiction care were developed, and operational definitions assigned patients to stages for a specific time point of analysis. National data was used to estimate the Denver population affected by OUD, OM and OP.

Result

SUBMITTER: Prieto JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6685741 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature