Quality of Buprenorphine Care for Insured Adults With Opioid Use Disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

The aim of this study was to characterize quality of buprenorphine care for opioid use disorder (OUD) by quantifying buprenorphine initiation, engagement, and maintenance for individuals in a large, diverse, real-world cohort in the United States.

Design

This was a retrospective cohort analysis.

Setting

OUD treatment in the outpatient setting.

Participants

A total of 45,210 commercially insured and Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees 18 years or older in the OptumLabs Data Warehouse with an index diagnosis of OUD between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2018.

Interventions

Treatment with buprenorphine.

Measurements

We calculated 6 measures of buprenorphine treatment quality. We conducted survival analyses to characterize treatment duration and l

SUBMITTER: Anderson KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8026663 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature