Correlates of alcohol use disorder pharmacotherapy receipt in medically insured patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Alcohol use disorder is a highly prevalent disease with multiple medications available for treatment. The overall prevalence of patients receiving pharmacotherapy is believed to be low and the characteristics and comorbidities that affect receipt are not well-established.

Methods

We created a dataset from Truven Health Analytics MarketScan Commercial Claims and Encounters Database of patients with an outpatient encounter for alcohol abuse or dependence in 2014. We subsequently identified patient characteristics, comorbid medical, psychiatric, or substance use disorders, as well as encounter provider specialties and, using multivariable logistic regression, assessed which variables correlated with increased or decreased receipt of pharmacotherapy for alcohol use di

SUBMITTER: Rittenberg A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8011546 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature