Developing a clinical decision support for opioid use disorders: a NIDA center for the clinical trials network working group report.

ABSTRACT: There is an urgent need for strategies to address the US epidemic of prescription opioid, heroin and fentanyl-related overdoses, misuse, addiction, and diversion. Evidence-based treatment such as medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) are available but lack numbers of providers offering these services to meet the demands. Availability of electronic health record (EHR) systems has greatly increased and led to innovative quality improvement initiatives but this has not yet been optimized to address the opioid epidemic or to treat opioid use disorder (OUD). This report from a clinical decision support (CDS) working group convened by the NIDA Center for the Clinical Trials Network aims to converge electronic technology in the EHR with the urgent need to improve screening, identification, a

SUBMITTER: Bart GB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6966783 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature