Barriers and Facilitators to Clinician Readiness to Provide Emergency Department-Initiated Buprenorphine.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) with buprenorphine decreases opioid use and prevents morbidity and mortality. Emergency departments (EDs) are an important setting for buprenorphine initiation for patients with untreated OUD; however, readiness varies among ED clinicians.

Objective

To characterize barriers and facilitators of readiness to initiate buprenorphine for the treatment of OUD in the ED and identify opportunities to promote readiness across multiple clinician types.

Design, setting, and participants

Using data collected from April 1, 2018, to January 11, 2019, this mixed-methods formative evaluation grounded in the Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services framework included 4 geographically diverse academic EDs. Attendin

SUBMITTER: Hawk KF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7215257 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature