Primary care and medication management characteristics among patients receiving office-based opioid treatment with buprenorphine.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Office-based opioid treatment (OBOT) is an evidence-based treatment model for opioid use disorder (OUD) offered by both addiction and general primary care providers (PCPs). Calls exist for more PCPs to offer OBOT. Few studies have been conducted on the primary care characteristics of OBOT patients.

Objective

To characterize medical conditions, medications, and treatment outcomes among patients receiving OBOT with buprenorphine for OUD, and to describe differences among patients by age and by time in care.

Methods

This study is a retrospective review of medical records on or before 4/29/2019 at an outpatient primary care clinic within a nonprofit addiction treatment setting. Inclusion criterion was all clinic patients actively enrolled in the OBOT program. P

SUBMITTER: Du CX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8947790 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature